Andrew Simms
Articles by andrew simms
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Ideas
Let the good times roll
- 31 January 2008
Andrew Simms on why consuming less doesn't have to be a painful experience
Life & Society
Getting to know you
- 21 June 2007
Your supermarket probably knows more about you than your partner, mother or doctor
Environment
Our best is not good enough
- 03 October 2005
Such is our dependence on oil, we face a shock that will dwarf any crisis of the past. It's a good job the government hasn't ruled out rations - only the effort of a war economy is likely to help.
Environment
Why we owe so much to victims of disaster
- 16 May 2005
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At the G8 summit, Brown and Blair should think of our debts to Africans, not theirs to us. We have stolen their share of the planet's resources
Society
The gaudy sameness of Clone Town
- 24 January 2005
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The free marketeers used to tell us that communism was the enemy of choice, but take a look at what global corporatism is doing to the high street
Politics
Would you buy a car that looked like this?
- 29 November 2004
Andrew Simms argues that SUVs are as dangerous to health as tobacco and should be made to carry similar warnings
World Affairs
The global trade in muscle
- 09 August 2004
Once, the rich world plundered Africa for mineral wealth. Now, as we shall see at the Olympics, it steals athletic talent and gives very little in return.
Environment
Blow, blow thou winter wind
- 28 June 2004
The planet can no longer sustain our oil addiction. Renewable energies, meanwhile, hold the key to ending poverty. Why are we so slow on the uptake?
World Affairs
Deaf to the world beyond them
- 07 June 2004
Andrew Simms dissects the pitiful record of G8, a summit of the industrialised countries that specialises in making big promises on aid, the environment and debt and then failing to deliver
