Study your political adversary While the Conservatives have driven UK politics for the best part of a decade, the Left has spent precious little time analysing the strategy and condition…
01 Aug, 2017
19 Apr, 2017
Together We Win
This has to be a General Election fought like no other. If we fight it the old way, the Tories will win a massive victory – not just for themselves…
07 Apr, 2017
The Progressive Alliance: why the SNP needs it
Read the full publication 'The Progressive Alliance: why the SNP needs it' here The refusal of the May government to countenance any differential deal for Scotland post Brexit now means…
16 Mar, 2017
A Progressive Alliance: The Radical Case
Our Past and Present Reality Although the Labour Party has existed for over a century, only once have we actually come from opposition to win a convincing parliamentary majority. No,…
28 Feb, 2017
Redirecting power, socialising capital without a revolution: it’s possible through values
This article is aimed at outlining a strategy to create authentically progressive communities, and help them to spread values such as social justice within society. Through the creation of progressive…
24 Feb, 2017
Our storm of change
At the end of the film Terminator 2 Sarah Connor looks across the New Mexico desert and says ‘there is a storm coming’. That storm is here. The aftermath of…
24 Feb, 2017
Basic Income and Institutional Transformation
Most misunderstandings concerning basic income arise from exaggeration about what a basic income can or ought to achieve. This is illustrated in reasonable points raised by Ruth Lister in her…
20 Feb, 2017
The Progressive Alliance and Hard Brexit
I was for a time a serious competitive middle distance runner, nurtured on the mantra of the great Franz Stampfl who coached Bannister to the four minute mile: “Go on…
17 Feb, 2017
Money is a women’s issue
After Thomas Paine published Agrarian Justice in 1795, it was for a long time thought to contain one of the earliest proposals for a form of basic income. He proposed…
08 Feb, 2017
Debunking the Democracy Myth
Democracy occupies a special place in our hearts. Conceived in Ancient Greece, debated over in the Magna Carta and fought over in the English Civil Wars; the right of the…
10 Feb, 2017
Basic income: the power of choice
Life is not a level playing field. From our birth to our death, each of our journeys is never quite the same. Nature and Nurture play a fundamental role in…
06 Feb, 2017
A review of Jason Brennan’s ‘Against Democracy’
Here we go again – another blow to our fondly-held beliefs about democracy! This book not only repeats many of the criticisms of democracy made in Democracy for Realists by…