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
Monday 21st Nov 2022 Escaping The Matrix: the search for a sustainable future 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
Sunday 23rd Oct 2022 All the King’s horses... neoliberalism’s unstoppable implosion 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
Tuesday 11th Oct 2022 The winter of our discontent: the politics of Truss and turmoil 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
Monday 12th Sep 2022 The Charge of the Blight Brigade As Britain lurches from one crisis to another, the Truss administration seems to have nothing to offer, says ALAN SIMPSON
Tuesday 23rd Aug 2022 Alice in Blunderland – the politics of complete confusion We urgently need to move beyond climate denial and short-termism, but neither Truss nor Sunak are capable of doing so, says ALAN SIMPSON
Saturday 13th Aug 2022 Drought Britain: radical solutions are the only reasonable solutions 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
Friday 22nd Jul 2022 Climate change: the Conservatives ignore the burning question 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
Monday 20th Jun 2022 Ozymandias Johnson: ‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ ALAN SIMPSON says modern Western societies show all the signs of impending civilisational collapse
Wednesday 25th May 2022 ‘Rejoice’ revisited: dystopian democracy 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
Friday 20th May 2022 Let them eat ... what? Britain’s implosion of political leadership 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