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Adam Peggs

Democratic Finance: An Expansive Public Banking Sector

While the cause of public ownership has been successfully advanced in a number of sectors, including public transport, household utilities…

9 min readNov 21, 2020

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Adam Peggs

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.

4 min readAug 25, 2020

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Adam Peggs

Labour and Britain’s Empire from Attlee to Gaitskell

Histories of the ‘Bevanites’, the grouping at the centre of the Labour Left in the late 1940s and 1950s, have typically focussed on a few…

10 min readMay 26, 2020

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Adam Peggs

The Fight for Fundamental Change Must Go On

Calls for the Labour Party to abandon its bold, left-wing agenda should not be embraced — the fight for a different kind of society must…

4 min readFeb 10, 2020

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Adam Peggs

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…

6 min readOct 12, 2018

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What Kind of Housing Model Should The Left Build?

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Adam Peggs

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…

3 min readSep 8, 2018

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Adam Peggs

Equality Of Opportunity Isn’t Enough

It’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…

11 min readMar 30, 2018

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Adam Peggs

Labour Has Done Something Amazing, This Could Be The Start of a Paradigm Shift

After thirty years of a political consensus which broadly accepted Thatcherism as the reality the first big sign of a change has come. We…

4 min readJun 18, 2017

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Labour Has Done Something Amazing, This Could Be The Start of a Paradigm Shift

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Adam Peggs

Adam Peggs

Southerner. Half-Gujarati. Socialist. Internationalist. I write about economics, housing policy, Labour Party history and British politics.

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