by David Boyle | 20 November 2018 | Blog
This post is taken from Richard Black’s new book Denied… This is the story of a coup-d’état that failed. A coup against science, against the will of peoples from the Arctic to the Equator, against nature itself. A coup attempt that, although it has failed, may...
by David Boyle | 8 November 2018 | Blog
The Brighton Belle was famous for its kippers. Laurence Olivier would take a leisurely breakfast back to his home in Ashurst in Sussex on the train after a West End triumph, reading the theatre reviews. The train began life in June 1934 and most of the brown and cream...
by David Boyle | 14 August 2018 | Blog
This week marks the 90th birthday of one of the pioneers of the new economics: James Robertson, one of the founders of the New Economics Foundation and a continuing inspiration to us at New Weather. It seemed like a good moment to reprise our 2016 interview with him...
by David Boyle | 5 August 2018 | Blog
Yes, it is hot. The heat has also added a layer of what I can only describe as degradation to our public services. But before I describe it, I don’t want to be pigeon-holed as someone who believes that all services should be managed by ministers, as they were...
by David Boyle | 16 July 2018 | Blog
So the NHS is 70 years old, and – perhaps it is because it is currently under threat from serious underfunding – the coverage has been self-congratulatory. There is a lot to be congratulatory about, of course: free at the point of use and the egalitarian ethos. It...
