Leading in difficult times is unbelievably hard, but we will all be better at it if we share what we’re learning and invite others to challenge our thinking and contribute their own. In that spirit, here are the four things that I think are emerging as lessons about effective activism in a time of coronavirus.
This is a love story. Forget what you’ve heard. It isn’t a war, it isn’t a fight. It isn’t a race, it isn’t a competition. This is a love story.
Lawyers, historians and constitutional experts will ultimately have the final say about whether last week’s decision to prorogue parliament is a democratic...
A guest blog by Rebecca Falcon (@RFalcon_) on a talk given by Roger Harding (@roger_harding) as part of the #changehistory series. You can listen to all the...
This weekend was the inaugural Adam Smith Festival of Ideas in Kirkcaldy and I was asked to speak about how Scotland could change the world in the years...
Jo Cox only used one qualifier when asked what kind of feminist she was. "Massive". She believed in politics and the rightful role of women at the centre of...
Guest post from Helen Elliot from Save the Children UK, on a talk by Maria Neophytou of the GREAT Initiative, as part of the #changehistory series of talks....
Guest post from Vic Langer, Campaigns Director at Save the Children UK, on a talk by Ruth Hunt, CEO of Stonewall, in the latest in Save the Children's...
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl7gxiqJYAU[/youtube] Guest post from Jack Wilson, campaigner at Save the Children, reflecting on a talk by...
Guest post from Yvonne Jeffery, @bakingforpeace, campaigner at Save the Children, reflecting on the latest in Save the Children's #changehistory series. You...
Guest post from Alice Macdonald, Save the Children's head of action/2015 campaign, @alicemac83. As part of Save the Children’s History of Change series (see...
At Save the Children we’re acutely conscious both of how much there is to be done to shape the future and also how much there is to be learnt from the past....
In 2005 some of us thought white bands and rock bands could change the world. We were right. Make Poverty History was an unprecedented popular mobilisation on...
In a piece for Real Clear World I argue that The chances of Britain making it through to May 7 without facing at least one unexpected international event with...
Latest of our #progressivedilemmas is on what we might expect from a future Labour Russia policy. Britain’s political class did not distinguish itself in its...
In our development dilemmas piece we consider what progressives should do now the split between foreign and development policy no longer exists: Should aid be...
The Fabian Society has a new pamphlet out this week which lays bare some of the big strategic fights underlying Labour's emerging foreign policy. I've...
In the latest of our #progressivedilemmas we consider what Labour’s approach to failing states should be. 2014 is the last year of British military...
In our latest #progressivedilemmas article we look at how the left should respond to China’s rise. During Labour’s last period in government we failed to make...
Latest piece in our #progressivedilemmas series, on whether a foreign policy is legitimised by public consent, global rules, international consensus or moral...
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...
Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other foundations of this order. The assumptions underpinning aid and its management...
Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘historical divide’ of BC and AC (before and after COVID-19), where unknown,...