I still have one account with Barclays. Yes, I am ashamed of myself. I've moved all the others. I did a small calculation, as one of the bank's 48m customers worldwide, and found that I have contributed £50 towards their £2.4bn annual bonus bill. I know I haven't...
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Strikingly Good-Why the Tube strike is a public service
The London Tube strike has unleashed a whole lot of nastiness. And I don't mean the 'misery for millions of Londoners'(of whom I'm one) who are deemed too weedy to undergo 48 of limited public transport. Welcome to the world of class hatred, hysteria,pathological...
In praise of middle-sized
The news emerged yesterday that the successful publisher Quercus is now up for sale because, according to co-founder Mark Smith, "the publishing industry seems to be polarising around very big and very small companies. It's difficult for companies of our size." The...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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