Posts by Neal Lawson

Creation of the Global Mind

by Neal Lawson

on 17th November 2017

As the Chinese proverb says, “you can’t leap a chasm in two bounds”. So if one will have to...

A four-step plan to keep Labour’s revolution rolling

by Neal Lawson

on 25th September 2017

Corbyn is hugely popular but the spirit of our age is digital and collaborative. Pluralism and progressive alliances are...

Global Responsible Tax and the Developing World

by Neal Lawson

on 12th May 2017

Earlier this year, we launched the global Responsible Tax project – which followed on from a successful UK pilot,...

Zygmunt Bauman provided hope where there was only despair

by Neal Lawson

on 23rd January 2017

Zygmunt Bauman was often spoken of as the most influential sociologist of the age. He died on 9th January...

What the new 21st-century left needs now

by Neal Lawson

on 28th September 2016

In all of the new left’s urgent, bottom-up energy, the danger is cacophony and not symphony. A new form...

Jeremy Corbyn can capture Parliament – here’s how to do it

by Neal Lawson

on 27th September 2016

The clock ticks. A Labour leadership ballot paper sits on my desk. I have 24 hours to decide. No,...

Labour is stuck but the people who want to leap to a new politics are scattered across the party

by Neal Lawson

on 1st August 2016

Dear Labour, B.B. (Before Brexit), I started writing constructively critical letters to other progressive parties; the Greens, the SNP...

Labouring on? It’s time to leap…

by Neal Lawson

on 2nd July 2016

“short term hopes are futile, long term resignation is futile” Hans Magnus Enzenberger For Labour this is not really...

Brexit: Silver Linings Playbook

by Neal Lawson

on 26th June 2016

Where to start? Shock, bewilderment, sadness, anger. Not just because the country will now take the extraordinary step of...

Labour must back the universal basic income and use it as a springboard to power

by Neal Lawson

on 7th June 2016

There are moments in your political life when you have to pinch yourself. When John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor...

Power with, not power over

by Neal Lawson

in Revolutionary Times

on 7th June 2016

If power is the way to make things happen, then how do we make things happen in the 21st...

Social democracy without social democrats: how can the left recover?

by Neal Lawson

on 13th May 2016

If Keir or Keira Hardie were to create a party today it would look nothing like the Labour Party....