Democratic Finance: An Expansive Public Banking SectorWhile the cause of public ownership has been successfully advanced in a number of sectors, including public transport, household utilities…Nov 21, 2020Nov 21, 2020
Who will stand up to stop and search?The controversial policing tactic needs to be scrapped — but who will stand up against the police’s discriminatory stop and search powers.Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020
Labour and Britain’s Empire from Attlee to GaitskellHistories of the ‘Bevanites’, the grouping at the centre of the Labour Left in the late 1940s and 1950s, have typically focussed on a few…May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
The Fight for Fundamental Change Must Go OnCalls for the Labour Party to abandon its bold, left-wing agenda should not be embraced — the fight for a different kind of society must…Feb 10, 2020Feb 10, 2020
What Kind of Housing Model Should The Left Build?This is intended to be a fuller version of a comment piece I wrote for HuffPost UK. My original intention was to write something which…Oct 12, 2018Oct 12, 2018
At What Point Do We Call It Economic Justice?Ten years after the financial crisis we are finally starting to see coherent economic thinking which looks at alternatives — and equally…Sep 8, 2018Sep 8, 2018
Equality Of Opportunity Isn’t EnoughIt’s an all too familiar line, that there is too much talk of reducing inequality of outcome and that really we need to acknowledge the…Mar 30, 2018Mar 30, 2018
Labour Has Done Something Amazing, This Could Be The Start of a Paradigm ShiftAfter thirty years of a political consensus which broadly accepted Thatcherism as the reality the first big sign of a change has come. We…Jun 18, 2017Jun 18, 2017