Exploring the disputed concepts of geoengineering and climate intervention: an excerpt from a review for New Socialist of Holly Jean Buck’s After Geogineering.
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.
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.
Helvetica may still be the only typeface to have starred in a movie. But another great European font, which turned 90 this year, has had a still more profound impact on the world’s visual culture. An excerpt from a feature on the cultural history of the typeface Futura I wrote for The New European.
A roundup of the ten books I most enjoyed reading in 2017: some sci-fi, some histories of the Russian Revolution, a bit of philosophy and a novel about Ovid…
A review for Social Europe of the first collection of essays to study the impact of the movement led by Jeremy Corbyn on the Labour Party and wider British and European politics.
For some the possibility of space exploration offers an escape from our sublunary cares. But as Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Aurora warns, space may simply be too big to make a home beyond this world.