Andrew Simms
Articles by Andrew Simms
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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
World Affairs
The new serfs
- 16 February 2004
They come from all corners of the globe, but only when they meet their strange, lonely deaths, as they did in Morecambe Bay, do we notice them
Society
The truth about ''health tourists''
- 12 January 2004
The idea of Britain as an innocent, being taken for a ride by ruthless visitors, is absurd. We were once the biggest source of economic refugees
Society
The rise of the British ghost town
- 15 December 2003
Butchers, bakers, post offices and newsagents are closing in their dozens, leaving dead communities and, in effect, a commercial one-party state. Andrew Simms reports
Environment
Global warming: make the guilty pay
- 08 December 2003
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Countries and corporations that belch out carbon emissions and shun Kyoto might think again if they were taken to court
World Affairs
Who owns the world?
- 15 September 2003
Everything - from land, water and plant seeds to folk stories and football results - can now be claimed as private property. Andrew Simms on the new enclosures
