Eliane Glaser lays out six big questions for the left – social democrats, radicals and the new ‘soft’ left alike. After four decades of neoliberal domination, she says, now is…
03 Jul, 2015
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How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
01 Jul, 2015
Child poverty does not only exist in a vacuum filled with hard-done-by urchins
What do children do to make themselves poor? And how we can we stop them doing it? It looks very bad having to announce that their numbers are growing (a 200,000 increase to 2.5 million…
26 Jun, 2015
Liberté, Égalité, Vélocité
Mark Perryman makes the case for a two-wheeled revolution Le Tour is now as much a fixture of the Great British Sporting Summer as Wimbledon strawberries and cream, a flutter…
26 Jun, 2015
Downfall: The Rise and Fall of the House of Scottish Labour
The story of the Scottish Labour Party was, until recently, one of the defining stories of Scotland over most of the 20th century. First there was its rise - the…
17 Jun, 2015
The case for a public investment fund
As the privatisation juggernaut – from Royal Mail to RBS – continues to roll, the government is hoping to net billions more from the sale of public assets. Privatisation was…
16 Jun, 2015
The SNP Ascendancy is changing Scotland and the SNP
The Scottish sun is out, and summer is approaching. This is true not just of the weather but reflects the mood of the SNP, their popularity, and especially that of…
25 Jun, 2015
Petition – Stop the breakup & Privatisation of Network Rail
TO: PATRICK MCLOUGHLIN, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR TRANSPORT Click here to sign the petition on 38 Degrees We call on the government to rule out the break-up and sell-off of Network…
25 Jun, 2015
Higher aspirations – politics beyond the ballot box
As with the Scottish referendum, electoral defeat can be transformed into political success. A new movement is rising, says Hilary Wainwright. Two words have become mantras in the post-election babble:…
09 Jun, 2015
Discussion: Is Labour Dead?
This week we published Downfall: Is Labour dead and how can radical hope be rebuilt? (PDF). It argues that 2015 was not like any other defeat. There are no…
03 Jun, 2015
Austerity, aspiration and the politics of hope
In the aftermath of the 2015 election, much of the commentary centred on the Labour Party’s failure to speak to the ‘aspiration’ of voters to secure better lives for themselves…
30 May, 2015
Radical Hope London – all the news and how to get involved
Have a read of what happened in the open space groups at our London post election gathering in May and get involved in whatever way you can - some wonderful things…
29 May, 2015
What Hope For Radical Politics?
Two weeks after the 1992 general election I could scarcely drag myself out of bed. So how come, two short weeks after another heart-sinking election victory for the radical right,…