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US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as
Features / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
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
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Features / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
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
PLUMMETING IN THE POLLS: Keir Starmer’s popularity ratings
3 January 2025
3 January 2025
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
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Features / 2 December 2024
2 December 2024
Undaunted by Big Oil success, ALAN SIMPSON looks at alternatives to lack of courage and imagination stifling the Labour government and it policies
A volunteer rests during a clean up in an area affected by f
Features / 1 November 2024
1 November 2024
As deadly weather events spread death and destruction, ALAN SIMPSON argues that Labour’s first Budget has failed to address the converging crises of climate breakdown and democratic alienation that require transformative change
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Features / 15 August 2024
15 August 2024
Following the wave of far-right violence, people came together across the land, demonstrating that we are so much better than the racists would have you believe and a better Britain can be built, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 15 July 2024
15 July 2024
From 1945-style credit creation to rapid decarbonisation, ALAN SIMPSON outlines the radical steps needed to tackle Britain’s crises — timidity risks squandering a historic opportunity
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Features / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
Visionary leadership is needed to tackle the existential climate crisis, but Labour risks squandering any opportunity for transformative change by clinging to the neoliberal economic orthodoxy, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 17 May 2024
17 May 2024
A new generation of protesters is targeting the warmongers promoting Israel’s ethnic cleansing who are determined to live outside the law, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Tractors pass in front of the Coliseum in a farmers’ prote
Features / 18 February 2024
18 February 2024
We need alternative modes of food production, but these won’t come out of an adherence to today’s corporately rigged markets or from a politics desperate to become more anodyne by the day, warns ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 30 January 2024
30 January 2024
The right can offer divisions and diversions to justify our increasingly broken society, but the left can marry genuinely transformative policies with the one thing our enemies can never offer: hope, explains ALAN SIMPSON
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech, at the
Features / 7 January 2024
7 January 2024
What use is Starmer’s politics that ‘treads lighter on our lives,’ when the scale of the problems Britain is facing are crying out for drastic action, says ALAN SIMPSON
Mitzi Jonelle Tan, of the Philippines, embraces Adriana Cald
Features / 17 December 2023
17 December 2023
The contradictions of oil-producing nations hosting and leading a climate change summit have been unavoidable. They could easily transition to renewable-based economies – we just need a new ‘1945 moment,’ explains ALAN SIMPSON
WAR SPIRAL: Israeli soldiers drive a tank to a staging area
Features / 27 November 2023
27 November 2023
As even the most cynical international politicians begin to realise they cannot deny that Israel’s war has gone far beyond ‘defeating Hamas,’ ALAN SIMPSON looks at how other countries could force a peace on the region
People at a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, during Stop t
Features / 5 November 2023
5 November 2023
Israel’s recently revealed plans for displacing millions of Palestinians into Egypt won’t bring peace, and neither will more war of any kind — what can progressives in the West call for instead, asks ALAN SIMPSON
Residents walk through flood water in Retford in Nottinghams
Features / 22 October 2023
22 October 2023
The world faces huge threats that know no national boundaries. ALAN SIMPSON asks where is the radical thinking needed to meet these challenges
ON THE WRONG PLANET: Former Bank of England governor Mervyn
Features / 25 September 2023
25 September 2023
Amid increasing floods and drought brought about by climate change, water security and its effective management are going to become pivotal factors in tomorrow’s politics, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Damage inside Parks Primary School in Leicester which has be
Features / 14 September 2023
14 September 2023
The self-rewarding rich fear any notion of radical change in the way that politics, government and economics works, but this is our only lifeline, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Lord Goldsmith
Features / 20 August 2023
20 August 2023
The Tories are in the grip of their lunatic right, leaving Labour to ‘triangulate’ towards the centre – instead, it should embrace the proposals of the Green New Deal Group, writes ALAN SIMPSON
A Just Stop Oil protester is taken away by police during day
Features / 6 August 2023
6 August 2023
Huge transformations in energy production usage are already underway and Britain is off the pace – brave thinking and brave action are needed if we’re to avert climate calamity, argues ALAN SIMPSON
General views of Cantref Reservoir in Brecon Beacons Nationa
Features / 3 July 2023
3 July 2023
ALAN SIMPSON looks to ‘tomorrow’s economics today,’ as found in a new initiative pioneered by Barbados which allows the poorest access to low-cost finance for climate investment programmes
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press c
Features / 10 March 2023
10 March 2023
ALAN SIMPSON charts Britain’s descent into dystopian democracy where those echoing the flotilla of falsehoods coming from ministers become the stormtroopers for a government with no other cards to play
Nurses strike
Features / 20 December 2022
20 December 2022
People know that today’s disputes are not the cause of a crisis within the NHS – it is the crisis of NHS underfunding that led to the disputes, argues ALAN SIMPSON
ROAD TO PROGRESS: Protesters block roads outside Parliament
Features / 21 November 2022
21 November 2022
ALAN SIMPSON laments the historic failure of Cop27 and the increasing criminalisation of climate activism as all parties ignore the simple ways out of the crisis we face
Liz Truss
Features / 21 October 2022
21 October 2022
While the Tory Party tears itself apart, the left is in need of a different script to address today’s economic, democratic and ecological challenges, argues ALAN SIMPSON
Truss and turmoil
Features / 11 October 2022
11 October 2022
Don't look for the electoral logic in our new PM's ‘neoliberal jihad’ — there isn't any: she is on a suicide mission to do as much irreversible damage to our democracy and our environment as she can, warns ALAN SIMPSON
Liz Truss
Features / 12 September 2022
12 September 2022
As Britain lurches from one crisis to another, the Truss administration seems to have nothing to offer, says ALAN SIMPSON
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Features / 22 August 2022
22 August 2022
We urgently need to move beyond climate denial and short-termism, but neither Truss nor Sunak are capable of doing so, says ALAN SIMPSON
Parched grass on Parker's Piece in Cambridge, as a drought h
Features / 13 August 2022
13 August 2022
The hostility to the environment from the remaining two Tory leadership candidates is truly terrifying — we have the solutions to the looming water crisis in front of our faces, but who will fight for them, asks ALAN SIMPSON
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss
Features / 22 July 2022
22 July 2022
Why was there almost no overlap in this week's major news events: the Tory leadership race and the hottest days on record? Because the party of small-mindedness and big business has nothing but contempt for our planet, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaks to the media after arri
Features / 19 June 2022
19 June 2022
ALAN SIMPSON says modern Western societies show all the signs of impending civilisational collapse
A panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switze
Features / 24 May 2022
24 May 2022
We move from partygate to blame games, never acknowledging the bigger picture that even arch-neoliberal forums like Davos can no longer avoid. The answers are out there, but our political elite will be the last to listen, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Britain urgently needs a 'national food plan'
Features / 19 May 2022
19 May 2022
With global supply routes choked up by Covid and the war in Ukraine leading to a catastrophic shortage of grain, our nation urgently needs a 'national food plan' that will us becoming self-reliant once again, writes ALAN SIMPSON
an E10 petrol pumps at a Petrol Station in Liverpool
Features / 30 March 2022
30 March 2022
Sunak’s decision to cut petrol prices rather than to fund public transport or commit to renewable, affordable energy, is just more evidence that we need to take power — in all its forms — into our collective hands, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Do Look Up
Features / 17 January 2022
17 January 2022
Those who seek to rescue democracy – and construct the different climate politics that tomorrow requires – must shift the terms of debate and the analysis of choices we face, argues ALAN SIMPSON
Insulate Britain climate activists take part in a demonstrat
Features / 9 December 2021
9 December 2021
Forget the shenanigans about Tory Party partying, something far more insidious is taking place — something eating away at the foundations of British democracy — and socialised distraction is just a cover for doing so, warns ALAN SIMPSON