by Lindsay Mackie | 3 October 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Lindsay Mackie, Andrew Simms and David Boyle argue that the UK test and trace debacle shows why capitalism – critics of which are now banned from school educational materials – isn’t working The testing crisis in which we are now engulfed could...
by Andrew Simms | 8 August 2020 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
In response to the shock of COVID-19, 3 friends wrote 33 poems in 3 months: the new volume, Plague Poems, is the result. In the midst of COVID-19, we need moments to reflect, to pay attention to things that matter, things we hadn’t noticed before, to new terrors and...
by David Boyle | 8 June 2020 | Blog
Bernie Ward is a friend mine, but she is also something of a heroine. For six thrilling years, she led the local economic tools team at the New Economics Foundation. During that time she developed, not just money flows analysis but also Bizfizz (enterprise coaching)...
by Lindsay Mackie | 5 June 2020 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
In the sorry tale of the UK’s response to the corona virus there are many lessons. The current unfolding illumination is how test and trace is destined to fail because of the actions of this and previous governments which have rendered a sensible response to testing...
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,...
