Remembering Jo Cox
We are very much remembering Jo Cox. Jo was a civilised, humane and thoughtful politician and we are desperately sorry that she has gone.
Europe IN 250 Words: We lose the solidarity of European social democrats at our peril.
Why working parents need European solidarity to secure their rights. In the mid 1970s UK maternity leave arrangements were among the best in Europe. Progress ground to a halt in 1979 with the election of a Conservative Government, which immediately doubled the...
Europe IN 250 Words: Save the Veto
The writer and independent MP A. P. Herbert was walking along the Thames at Westminster in July 1940, the day France surrendered to the Nazis, when someone shouted at him from a barge: “Hurray! No allies!” The truth was that this idea, that Britain should no longer...
Europe IN 250 Words: Brexiteers’ Dream
Brexiteers dream, one imagines, of waking up on June 24th to a land free of alien interference and pesky laws made by Johnny Foreigner, where we can decide who is entitled to have human rights, eat all the bendy bananas we like, and raise a glass of English ale in a...
Europe IN 250 Words: Introduction
This week the New Weather Institute kicks off a series of short arguments for staying in Europe. Europe IN 250 Words is written by a variety of different people covering the subjects they care about and are fearful for, if we should vote Brexit. Our writers will be...
The central mystery about Southern Rail’s implosion: an open letter to the CEO
An open letter to Charles Horton, chief executive of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), operators of Southern Railway... Dear Charles Horton We’ve never met, I’m afraid. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you quoted in the newspapers or interviewed on the radio. But I’m...
Is there no level of privatised incompetence when regulators will rescue customers?
“The thing is, I don’t believe this stuff about staff shortages.” This is the kind of thing that, unfortunately, those on the South Coast have not been saying nearly enough to their train operator Southern Railways. But that is what I said, and it doesn’t sound like a...
The progressive economic case to remain in Europe
The New Weather Institute works with the network, Economists for Rational Economic Policies (EREP), which explores the progressive case for the UK remaining in the European Union in its new publication, “Remain for Change: Building European solidarity for a democratic...
Make it Fast and Frugal- Building the Good Future
This week in sun drenched Hay on Wye we've been talking about rapid transition to a better way of doing things. And by that we mean a way of doing things, a future, that doesn't actually kill millions of us, impoverish other millions, further enslave Nature, and give...
Are conditions approaching for a rapid economic shift?
Prof Richard Murphy of City University thinks out loud about the prospect of a rapid transition in economic thinking and practise, in conversation with New Weather Institute's Andrew Simms at the Hay Festival By Richard Murphy Andrew Simms and I had a lot of fun...