If I have to be honest, I've never been too keen on utopias. I don't understand them: they're too big, too abstract, too flawless for me, not something I can…
21 Sep, 2015
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18 Sep, 2015
Corbyn: The Fallout
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14 Sep, 2015
A new Labour leader – thoughts from the progressive movement?
Something big has happened. The Labour Party is now being led in a very different way. The huge, democratic mandate given to Jeremy Corbyn is exciting, unexpected, perplexing and many…
13 Sep, 2015
Looking to the future
One morning in August I read two Guardian articles. The first, a Toynbee comment piece, argued that Corbyn appealed to the heart but not the head – he would lose…
12 Sep, 2015
Corbyn’s First Job Is Simple, Make His New Members Feel Welcome
15 000 new members joined the Labour party within 24 hours of the election and they are entering an organisation which is not as welcoming as it could be. I…
09 Sep, 2015
Labour’s New Leader – The Power to Transform?
Dear Labour Leader, We don’t want to pre-empt the result on Saturday but having thought about it we decided that our advice, if you wish to take any of it,…
03 Sep, 2015
A Labour Party of protest or government? Bringing politics back in
A party of protest or a party of government – according to Gordon Brown these are the options, the choices at stake, suggesting they are very different things, polarities even. Those who…
02 Sep, 2015
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Come work with us! We're looking for a Campaigns and Ideas Organiser to join our small but lively and busy team in London. Salary: £25 000 - £30 000, depending on…
24 Aug, 2015
Clause IV’s moment?
Clause IV as the foundations for the Next Economy There’s been quite a lot of talk about Jeremy Corbyn shifting back to the much disputed ‘clause iv’ of the Labour…
18 Aug, 2015
Does anyone have a monopoly on ‘economic credibility’?
The need for heroes, to admire them, to be inspired by them, runs deep in our cultural and social make-up. And with good reason – such figures epitomise the nobler…
17 Aug, 2015
Take Back The City: Utopia
“Well I suppose I am political, I do vote” - Deborah, Camelot Properties, Walthamstow In today’s political system the level of involvement that is expected of a citizen constitutes one…
14 Aug, 2015
Extend democracy to every sphere
Utopianism is a charge I lay against the ‘everyone-for-themselves-individualists’ who are all too powerful today, those who use the rhetoric of individual self-empowerment as a cover for a power grab…