Unlocking the potential of mass localism
The UK’s major political parties have all pointed to the importance of encouraging and supporting more local responses to addressing big social challenges.
Movement Politics
Purnell sets out his grand vision
In a thoughtful and, at times, radical speech tonight at the LSE, James Purnell outlined why he believes the Labour party must go beyond its focus on equality of opportunity with a series of reforms to the market, state, andtest
Five key lessons on Facebook activism
Use a brand that taps into a meme; look for the movements already working on this; keep your messaging as simple as possible; and give people easy things to do.
The climate movement at a crossroads
This is a defining moment for the British climate movement. Copenhagen has proved a watershed: its failures have thrown campaigners into a state of profound self-doubt and re-evaluation. Combined with the revival of climate scepticism – the fallout from Climategatetest
We need a New Turn from tribal politics
Politicians want young people to engage in business-as-usual party politics. But young people are not voting and are turned off the old approach to tribal politics.
What the left can learn from the free-market right
The economic crisis has placed neo-liberalism under pressure. But the left has much to learn from the movement that pushed the rise of the free-market right.
Learning the lessons of the Dems’ defeat in Mass.
The defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in the bluest of blue states, Massachusetts, for liberal icon Ted Kennedy’s own seat offers lessons as urgent as they are vital to incumbents headed in to elections on both sides of the Atlantictest