by Andrew Simms | 4 January 2016 | Blog
Each year the Financial Times surveys around 100 economists about what the paper considers the key issues for the upcoming year. The results are reported today with the main story highlighted being broad support for continued membership of the European Union, but many...
by Andrew Simms | 30 December 2015 | Blog
The politics and economics of energy and climate change – two, huge, linked themes – dominated the year. And nowhere, from governments to anti-austerity oppositions on the left, are the full implications for economies being appreciated. The Paris climate...
by Andrew Simms | 21 December 2015 | Blog
Seasonal memories of Charles Dickens’ London lifted from A Christmas Carol somehow let us feel better about ourselves. We look back on less enlightened times and see how far we’ve come. We know the redemptive moral journey to be taken by Ebeneezer Scrooge and...
by Andrew Simms | 16 April 2015 | Projects, What we've done
The triumph of a general election is that anything to do with our national life can be discussed. You can talk to candidates about anything – and they will have to at least seem to listen. The tragedy is that, generally speaking, we don’t....
by Andrew Simms | 7 July 2014 | Projects, What we've done
New Weather is excited to be launching this new project in partnership with Friends Provident Foundation which we hope will help heal the rift between the emerging ultra-local economic sector and mainstream economic policy makers. The underlying problem is...
