by Andrew Simms | 18 May 2016 | Blog
In 1972 the law was passed that allowed the UK to join what was then called the European Economic Community (EEC). Despite Europe’s current crises, it’s unchanging, fundamental challenge was expressed that year by Sicco Mansholt, then president of the European...
by Andrew Simms | 26 April 2016 | Blog
Dear Jane Ellison MP, When I travel from your constituency where I live to visit family members outside London, I pass through Liverpool Street station. Perched near the steps that bring you up from the Underground is a statue so modest that most commuters pass it...
by Andrew Simms | 4 April 2016 | Blog
Nuclear plans pass high costs, economic and other risks to future generations, it’s time for new design criteria for the energy system. Cancelling the troubled plan for the French state-owned energy company EDF to build the proposed new Hinkley Point C nuclear...
by Andrew Simms | 9 March 2016 | Blog
There is a small earthquake going on, but we can barely feel it yet – a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. But it is below the radar of policy-makers. It suggests that the force that will eventually take our struggling local economies by the scruff of their necks...
by Andrew Simms | 5 January 2016 | Blog
Here’s Part 2 of the New Weather Institute’s responses to the Financial Times’ annual survey of economists on what the paper considers to be key issues for the upcoming year. Our full responses sit behind a paywall on the FT’s site, so we republish them...
