Read the report A new universal basic income model could cut poverty by more than half, reducing it to its lowest level for 60 years. This fiscally neutral scheme involves…
27 May, 2022
09 May, 2022
Lesson on candidate selection from North Hertfordshire
Since 2019, a Labour-Lib Dem coalition has held control of North Hertfordshire District Council. At the 2022 Local Election, this was strengthened with Labour gaining two seats against the Tories…
06 May, 2022
Progressive Alliance triumphs and tragedies at the 2022 Local Elections
The 2022 election results are in, but we're still crunching the numbers to figure out the national analysis. What we know so far is that it was a bad night…
25 Apr, 2022
Basic Income Month — Our crowdfunded basic income pilot
In 2021 we crowdfunded a basic income pilot. Working with the London Solidarity Funds we ran the Basic Income Month, funding £50 payments to 71 people.
24 Mar, 2022
Sunak won’t tackle the cost of living crisis. A basic income can.
Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this government’s spring budget. With living standards set for the largest single-year fall since records began in the mid 1950s, the government will oversee a 5% fall…
07 Apr, 2022
Book Review “Keystroke Capitalism: How Banks Create Money for the Few” by Aaron Sahr
Aaron Sahr offers a rich discourse on the huge growth of financial markets in modern economies and the implication for inequality. We face a ‘trinity of growing private wealth, mounting…
16 Feb, 2022
Details of the Welsh basic income pilot announced
In this blog Co-Founder of the Basic Income Conversation Cleo Goodman looks at the details of the Welsh basic income pilot released today. Today details of the Welsh basic income pilot have…
23 Dec, 2021
Twelve Books for the Twelve Days of Christmas
Preparing for the season of goodwill Philosophy Football's Mark Perryman selects books to tide us over into the New Year, and beyond. Apart from bah humbug miserabilists those of…