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Despot Bingo

Renew Candidate for Lewes, Paul Gerken, invites us to play a game with him: the great Despot Bingo. There is a classic set of requirements to be a certified despot in today’s modern world. Like many others, I thought our chances of being lucky enough to have our very own British tyrannical leader (a Brit-pot, if you will) were so...

Published on 03 Oct 2019

Reforming Capitalism in the 21st Century: Part One

In the first of a two-part series, Gwen Jones looks at the history of capitalism - and wonders how it might evolve in the future. The year is 1938. Alone in a Soviet prison cell, one man is awaiting the end to his eight-year-long ordeal. Nikolai Kondratieff had spent almost a decade as a political prisoner in Suzdal, just northeast...

Published on 26 Sep 2019

Climate Change and Cattle: A Week With Renew

David Britten updates you on the latest Renew events. It was Harold Wilson who said that a week is a long time in politics, and I can confirm that. Last week was a long week. As the Liberal Democrats officially adopted Revoking Article 50 as Brexit policy, Scotland’s highest court ruled the proroguing of Parliament unlawful and the Supreme Court...

Published on 24 Sep 2019

The Media is Not Your Enemy

Renew’s Heather Astbury gives some advice for media management in a guide that might especially appeal to our members and candidates nervous at the prospect of engaging with journalists. “There’s no point in doing media interviews because the reporter will twist everything you say and make you look bad anyway.” This is a statement I have heard so often –...

Published on 20 Sep 2019

Can We Get Some New Politicans Please, Because These Guys Suck?

Renew's very own James Bryan asks: can we get some more experts in here? Westminster is full of the lousiest pack of blowhards that one could possibly conceive of. How is it possible, that in a country where there are people working on nanotechnology and data science problems that were completely infeasible ten years ago, we have ended up with...

Published on 17 Sep 2019

Seriously? Proroguing Parliament? Now?

Renew's James Bryan airs his frustrations with the current political climate. We choose representatives to make decisions of national importance, that is the core principle on which our democracy is built. There is a certain level of trust that comes with this level of power, and it has often been the case that politicians have abused that trust. Taking away...

Published on 12 Sep 2019

RENEW BLOG

Despot Bingo

Reforming Capitalism in the 21st Century: Part One

Climate Change and Cattle: A Week With Renew

The Media is Not Your Enemy

Can We Get Some New Politicans Please, Because These Guys Suck?

Seriously? Proroguing Parliament? Now?