The Urgent Task of Reimagining the State

The Urgent Task of Reimagining the State

Covid 19 has given new urgency to the radical task of rethinking the state.  Illness, job losses, hospitalisation, and economic precarity demonstrate the need for scales and forms of governance that can organise and resource social welfare and public health...
Anti-racism, Materialism and the Sewell Report

Anti-racism, Materialism and the Sewell Report

One might be forgiven for thinking that the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities’ Report was released a day early. The Report’s insistence that Britain is not institutionally racist, and indeed that Britain could serve as a ‘beacon’ for other...
Brighton and Hove’s Homeless Bill of Rights

Brighton and Hove’s Homeless Bill of Rights

On 25 March 2021 the City of Brighton & Hove voted (by 31 votes to 11, with 7 abstentions) to adopt the Homeless Bill of Rights. (The text, and much other material related to the campaign, may be found at the website: The Homeless Bill of Rights.) What does this...