Why would anyone start another think-tank? It is a reasonable question. The centres of the world’s greatest cities are now heaving with think-tanks, full of young men in pressed blue shirts and young women juggling with PowerPoint presentations. The problem is that...
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The Death of Royal Mail
I've been writing about the Post Office and Royal Mail for years. Sometimes I get tired of repeating the reasons why they matter so immensely to our public life but I've drunk some coffee and am chewing on the barley sugar ; should work. Rage is though a better kick...
‘National Plan’ to move the UK from the politics of austerity to the age of the Green New Deal
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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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