It took me a year but I have published my first book. In it I identify and analyse 18 reasons why the Tories have been so successful at winning elections over the last 123 years. I list these reasons in the conclusion. The final two chapter describe how we stop the Tories in the short … Continue reading First book is now out on why the Tories keep winning and how to stop them →

I'm now working on a bigger writing project and need to focus on that so I'm going to pause blog posts for a while. I'll post here once the bigger project is done, hopefully early 2023.

The new book, 'Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work' by Ian Allinson is an important, useful and timely book. I highly recommend it to anyone on the left, in unions and working on campaigns outside unions. It combines political education, a training manual, strategic thinking and engaging case studies. Ian is very … Continue reading Workers Can Win book review →

This post describes the different ways that campaigners can influence politics and political parties. I've started with a few frameworks Charity, advocacy, mobilising, organisinginside outside game/theoriesInside/outside strategy I've then described some new political campaigning and organising tactics that have proved effective recently: Distributed organisingTea party/Indivisible advocacy approachTactical canvassingDeep canvassingIndependent political platform in local elections Charity, … Continue reading Non-party political campaigning and organising →