There is nothing inevitable about the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Brits are not naturally predisposed towards national populism and all the divisions that come with it. Parties…
02 May, 2025
28 Mar, 2025
Open Letter: Our Water, Our Way
Dear Steve Reed OBE MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Emma Hardy MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Water and Flooding), Your government promised…
26 Mar, 2025
Spring Statement: ‘Rachel Reeves Must Remember What Labour Is Actually For’
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government. Who would want to be in Rachel Reeves’ shoes,…
19 Mar, 2025
No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts – We Need a Wealth Tax Instead
Keir Starmer must change course from this performative cruelty towards the sick and disabled. When your pen hovered over the ballot paper on July the 4th last year, did you…
17 Mar, 2025
Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the Myth of Liberal ‘Returnism’
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to “normal” they risk a very rude awakening. Every so often an esteemed liberal…
11 Mar, 2025
Thames Water Emergency Board Launched!
Right now, the biggest water firm in the country is effectively insolvent and is being restructured through a High Court stewarded £3 billion debt deal followed by an equity bidder…
07 Mar, 2025
Anneliese Dodds’s Principled Resignation Should Be a Warning for Keir Starmer
The International Development Secretary’s departure was overshadowed by world events this week, but it risks having a much longer lasting impact on the Government’s fortunes. Despite the global implications of…
07 Mar, 2025
Campaign Update: Our Water Our Way Partners
We’ve made fantastic progress in our campaign so far. Fifteen organisations have already signed our pledge to support public ownership of water. These range from grassroots groups leading the fight…
25 Feb, 2025
Keir Starmer Must Embrace Proportional Representation and End the Coercive Duopoly Throttling Our Democracy
Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain’s deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson This week I’m going to write about electoral…
19 Feb, 2025
Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy Is an Electoral Dead End for His Government
Labour’s attempt to mimic Nigel Farage’s Reform on immigration is a fundamental misunderstanding of its electoral base. As I’ve written for Byline Times before, every successful political project requires an intellectual framework. …
21 Jan, 2025
MPs to debate PR on January 30th
Last month, the House of Commons voted to back Proportional Representation for the first time in history – yet Sarah Olney’s Ten Minute Rule Bill is unlikely to be allocated further parliamentary…
14 Jan, 2025
New Campaign: Our water our way
Our guiding principle in choosing campaigns is whether they help make a Good Society possible; one where equality, sustainability and democracy are not mere aspirations, but a living reality. As…