by Lindsay Mackie | 25 May 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such widely shared moment has been revelations about the brazen breaking by members of the government of their own public safety measures. Another such a moment,...
by Lindsay Mackie | 18 May 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition
In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was pre-Covid19. We need to be preparing that new world now. So let us imagine it, this new world. The kindness of neighbours we can leave on one side for the moment...
by Lindsay Mackie | 13 April 2020 | Blog
The Government and Professor Chris Whitty, its Chief Medical Officer, have, to be fair, always told us that this and the next two or three weeks are going to be horrible and difficult. That the death rate would be high – almost 1000 people a day now...
by Lindsay Mackie | 28 February 2020 | Blog, Open Public Media
Every UK administration gets angry with the BBC, but this time it’s different. New Weather examines what’s really behind the Government’s attack on the licence fee and its ‘consultation’ On 5 February 2020, culture secretary Nicky...
by Lindsay Mackie | 17 February 2020 | Blog, Open Public Media
We now know the truth, courtesy of the Sunday Times revealing on 16th February that the Government, in the shape of the Prime Minister and Dominic Cummings, want to “whack” the BBC by dismantling it and abolishing the licence fee. Apart from being a monumentally...
