Food crises and the spectre of collapse 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
Tuesday 28th Nov 2023 Who will save Israel from itself? 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
Monday 06th Nov 2023 From the river to the sea: how global politics has abandoned the Middle East 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
Monday 23rd Oct 2023 The Sound of Silence – a politics beyond breakdown The world faces huge threats that know no national boundaries. ALAN SIMPSON asks where is the radical thinking needed to meet these challenges
Tuesday 26th Sep 2023 Ecosystems and economics turned inside out 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
Monday 18th Sep 2023 Broken Britain – what happens when everything falls apart? 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
Sunday 20th Aug 2023 The new battle of Hastings and the climate Musketeers 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
Monday 07th Aug 2023 A feast of fools – what happens when politics gets lost? 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
Monday 03rd Jul 2023 Bridge(town) over troubled waters 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
Friday 10th Mar 2023 Sunak’s Hunger Games 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
Tuesday 20th Dec 2022 A (hospital) bed for the night 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