It’s Friday morning, the second reading of Clive Lewis’s Water Bill on Parliament Live TV. I hear Clive say that we need to be able ‘to imagine a better way.’…
04 Apr, 2025
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24 Mar, 2025
Starmer must be brave, or he’s doomed
The 4th July 2024 was a special night for me. The poor coverage aside (the BBC really were missing Dimbleby, weren’t they?), it was a wonderful spectacle for a 33-year-old…
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
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 Oct, 2023
How to Fix Broken Britain
If someone tried to persuade you to exchange your new laptop for a Sinclair computer or your electric car for a Morris Minor, you’d give them short shrift. Their argument,…
11 Aug, 2023
The Ghent System – A remedy for Britain’s social and economic tensions?
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…
20 Jul, 2023
By-election frenzy shouldn’t be the only time citizens are engaged
As I write this I’m working from Selby. Selby is my hometown; my mum still lives here. I’m writing this on by-election day, and, as you may have heard, Selby…
04 Jul, 2023
We must speak up to save the NHS
This 5th July marks the NHS’s 75th anniversary. But while there’s much to celebrate about this amazing institution, there’s something else we must do as we arrive at this important…
20 Dec, 2022
The Ideology problem and how Proportional Representation can fix this
It is unlikely that you will find anyone who disagrees that the premiership of Liz Truss was a turbulent affair. As a lived experience, it was a mess bereft of…
31 Oct, 2022
The Scavenger Mindset: Rethinking Leadership to unlock the untapped talent within
The Scavenger Mindset: Rethinking Leadership to unlock the untapped talent within, A new book by Clare Richmond, calls for leaders to shake off outdated leadership styles and seek instead a more…
23 Sep, 2022
Liz Truss is returning to the fairytale economics of the 1980s
Excessive Inequality and wealth redistribution to the rich have wrecked the economy. 'Trussonomics' won't help. Our new prime minister has already set out her primary economic principles. Although a £90bn…
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…