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  • Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Union

    Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Union

    You can download Greens for Europe, the book which I contributed to, here: PDF eBook Physical copies are available in the shops listed here.

    March 13, 2019
  • Labour Should Put Post-16 Education at the Heart of its National Education Service

    Labour Should Put Post-16 Education at the Heart of its National Education Service

    This article was originally published in Look Left – Oxford University Labour Club‘s termly journal.  Education funding has been a hot political issue in recent years, with schools facing a funding crisis and controversial tuition fees being introduced in higher education. Until recently, however, further education has been largely missing from the conversation. Despite bearing […]

    February 28, 2019
  • Greens for a Better Europe – Book

    Greens for a Better Europe – Book

    I’m really excited to see the launch of Greens for a Better Europe – Twenty Years of UK Green Influence in the European Parliament, a book which I contributed a chapter to, co-authored by Klina Jordan. The book will be available from early March. Until then, here is the abstract of mine and Klina’s chapter. […]

    February 25, 2019
  • How Labour Can Seize The Initiative From The Independent Group

    How Labour Can Seize The Initiative From The Independent Group

    This was originally posted as a HuffPost article: How Labour Can Seize The Initiative From The Independent Group As of Thursday at 4pm, eleven MPs – eight Labour and three Conservative – had left their respective parties to join ‘The Independent Group’, sparking a political crisis for both main parties. I say sparking, but in […]

    February 22, 2019
  • Why Trade Unions Need to Make Votes Matter

    Why Trade Unions Need to Make Votes Matter

    The trade union case for Proportional Representation.

    February 12, 2019
  • OULC Term Card Hilary 2019

    OULC Term Card Hilary 2019

    Here is this term’s series of events, for which I will be co-chair!

    January 15, 2019
  • Labour4PR: Invite a speaker and call for electoral reform!

    Labour4PR: Invite a speaker and call for electoral reform!

    It’s a new year, and we are renewing our efforts for Labour to adopt Proportional Representation as party policy. You can see my case for doing so, in LabourList, here. So far, an unprecedented fifty-three (53) Constituency Labour Parties have passed motions calling on Labour to support PR for Westminster. Make Votes Matter has now added […]

    January 10, 2019
  • Oxford Climate Review: Out of Proportion

    Oxford Climate Review: Out of Proportion

    How electoral systems can transform climate policy

    December 31, 2018
  • Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right

    Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right

    The UK media likes to blame far right gains elsewhere – as in Sweden’s recent election – on PR. In fact the evidence shows disproportional voting systems give more power to the extreme right. This was originally posted as an article for OpenDemocracy: Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right Reading the […]

    October 12, 2018
  • The case for mandatory reselection

    This was originally posted as an article for the Oxford University Labour Club blog: The Case for Mandatory Reselection  As the 2018 Labour Conference approaches, the debate around mandatory reselection is intensifying. For some MPs and their supporters, mandatory reselection is simply a tool for the left to purge the ‘moderates’ from the Party. This may […]

    September 23, 2018
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