by Andrew Simms | 24 January 2021 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
On the morning of Sunday 24 January, 97,329 lives had been taken by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, according to Government statistics. By some estimates, the country had already passed 100,000 deaths 11 days earlier. Marking this milestone is in some sense...
by Andrew Simms | 7 January 2021 | Blog, The Economics Reformation
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took part. The survey’s predictions often prove highly accurate but after such an extraordinary year, and with...
by Andrew Simms | 16 December 2020 | Blog, The Economics Reformation
Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch of Digital Theatre+’s new filmed discussion. “A pandemic spreads” are the first three words of our participatory...
by Andrew Simms | 22 August 2020 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales, Rapid Transition
POWER OUT is a new BBC thriller about power and protest on a dying planet, starring Vinnie Heaven and written by New Weather’s Sarah Woods. It asks what happens when the power system we’re hooked up to fails? If this is power, then POWER OUT: POWER OUT on the...
by Andrew Simms | 8 August 2020 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
In response to the shock of COVID-19, 3 friends wrote 33 poems in 3 months: the new volume, Plague Poems, is the result. In the midst of COVID-19, we need moments to reflect, to pay attention to things that matter, things we hadn’t noticed before, to new terrors and...
