Rosemary Bechler was an editor for openDemocracy, specifically Can Europe Make It? and founder member of DiEM25. She also edited several books of essays for the British Council and coordinated the…
22 Jan, 2024
22 Jan, 2024
Rosemary Bechler was an editor for openDemocracy, specifically Can Europe Make It? and founder member of DiEM25. She also edited several books of essays for the British Council and coordinated the…
25 Aug, 2023
From the climate crisis to the cost of living crisis to the housing crisis, we need fast and radical change in how our society operates, and this cannot be achieved…
11 Aug, 2023
The Ghent system isn’t likely to be a concept many people are familiar with - at least certainly not in Britain. Yet while this seemingly obscure policy implementation is not…
24 Oct, 2022
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
07 Sep, 2022
I'm writing this on my first day back at work after a fortnight of rest and truly revitalising food for the soul, and I know that I am immensely privileged…
25 Mar, 2022
Ardler, Dundee, pictured in the 1970s. Photo by Retro Dundee. Freedom is a word and ideal that is constantly bandied about, invoked and promised. It is so powerful that it…
24 Mar, 2022
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…
28 Jul, 2021
If we want to build a better future, where do we start? In 1925, John Maynard Keynes shared his answer to that question in a letter to the British journalist…
15 Feb, 2021
Friday 5th February saw the official launch of Poverty (2nd ed.) by Ruth Lister, member of the House of Lords and vice-chair of Compass (the first edition was published in 2004). The event was…
02 Feb, 2021
The last year has put poverty firmly back on the political agenda. As the pandemic and lockdown swept across the UK, it was abundantly clear that while we might all…
05 Jan, 2021
This article was originally published on the Polity blog The coronavirus pandemic has exposed and aggravated the economic insecurity experienced by a growing number of members of society. This may…
24 Sep, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world: it is also a crisis…