Join Compass Oxfordshire for a special public meeting on UK democracy, 12th April 2025, at the Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford.
Listen to some of our key national democracy campaign speakers, meet others who are also interested in strengthening our democracy, and take part in constructive discussion on how to get change, locally and nationally.
Speakers
Neal Lawson – Director of Compass
‘After the Riots’: the economic disparity, cultural tensions and political disillusionment that feeds the far-right narratives infiltrating UK organisations and the need for a radical counter-vision.
Calum Miller – Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester & Woodstock
The urgent problem of press and social media disinformation. Do we have the systems and the will to regulate them effectively?
Dr Isobelle Clarke – Lecturer in Security & Protection Science, Lancaster University
New research on some of the online techniques used to spread disinformation, with reference to Trump’s tweets, trolling, pseudo-science and conspiracy theories.
Mark Thomas – Director of campaign group The 99% and author of ‘Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It’ (2019)
Good Chaps politics, defensive constitutional reform, and the government steps needed to defend UK democracy against powerful bad actors.
Rt Hon Tom Brake – Director of Unlock Democracy
Increasing citizen engagement in voting and policymaking. What steps can we take to prevent our democracy from being poisoned by disinformation and to secure a workable, effective vision for ‘the good society’?