Exploring the disputed concepts of geoengineering and climate intervention: an excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geogineering.
An essay written for the Fabian Society on making machine learning, renewables and other new technologies work for the collective good.
An essay for New Socialist on the political science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a focus on his most recent novel Red Moon.
A little over a century ago, there was an expectation that the future was ours to map and manage. An excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Economic Science Fictions, edited by Wiliam Davies.
As with any broad church Labour fractious congregation will only survive if its factions try to understand and tolerate each other’s theologies. Simon Hannah’s engaging history offers a useful pastoral resource for all those who want to help perpetuate that uneasy but rich alliance.
China now occupies the role once played by the Soviet Union when futurists and science fiction writers imagine the Earth’s political tensions extending into a new era of interplanetary conflict. A brief article for The Norwich Radical in which I try to discern the vector of China’s accelerating space programme.
Why, 10 years after a crisis of capitalism that has entrenched inequalities and insecurity, do progressives still struggle to convince a sceptical public that an alternative economics is possible? A report by the New Economics Foundation offers an answer.