• How could protests be more effective?

    A protest against the killing of Renee Good last Wednesday, only hours after it happened. The 2010s saw more people take part in political protests than any decade before. The 2020s are shaping up to be bigger still — on the day I write this, the US is facing another big wave of protests over…

  • Why do protest movements fail? If We Burn by Vincent Bevins, review and analysis

    Something odd happened in the 2010s. As the journalist Vincent Bevins puts it: From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. I was one of them. I marched in November 2010 against the British government’s plans to treble the tuition fees for universities. It didn’t…

  • In my previous and first post, I explained what a people’s assembly is. This is the first of a two-part post in which I discuss why we need them. This first part discusses the problems that lead us there in order to understand the broad argument for assembly democracy. The second will discuss the benefits…