Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
The world desperately needs another dream to live by
Neoliberalism has collapsed: everlasting growth and unlimited consumption were doomed to fail – so what now, asks ALAN SIMPSON

“DON’T choose extinction.” This was the simple advice offered by a dinosaur in the UN’s CGI video message to global leaders. The question is whether any have the sense to heed it.
The chaotic upheavals surrounding Glasgow’s Cop26 gathering suggest the message is not getting through fast enough.
To be fair, there were hopeful signs.
More from this author

As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON

Some hard political choices must be made in Trump’s post-truth era – starting by abandoning any illusions about the ‘special relationship’ and waking up to the need for bold policy-making on the climate, argues ALAN SIMPSON

Centrist governments around the world face rejection by their electorates as neoliberalism fails to deliver the public prosperity it never promised – and the same fate awaits Labour unless it starts to deliver for those struggling to survive, says ALAN SIMPSON

Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies