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22.11.2024

A Tale of Two Towns — Map

An interactive map exploring the neoliberal remaking of England’s industrial heartlands.

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Sacha Hilhorst

Senior Research Fellow

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2026-09-23

23.09.2026

Back In-House: The Case for Ending Outsourcing

Government outsourcing has channelled public money into private profit, at the expense of workers’ rights, democratic accountability and service quality. Bringing services back in-house should be the default across the public sector.

Sophie Flinders

Eleanor Shearer

Finance & Pensions

2026-05-21

21.05.2026

Everything Must Go: Local Government Debt and the Public Asset Fire Sale — The Case of Leeds

On council asset sales, debt and unsustainable council funding settlements.

Sophie Flinders

Stuart Hodkinson

Paul Chatterton

2026-05-18

18.05.2026

Popular Radicalism in Post-Industrial England

Place-based research into the lives of voters in post-industrial England and how progressives can connect with them.

2025-11-24

24.11.2025

A Local Power Plan that Works for Communities

Mathew Lawrence

2025-09-25

25.09.2025

Progressive Politics Beyond Cities

On winning support and fighting Reform.

2025-01-20

20.01.2025

The Public is Enthusiastic for Community Energy

New YouGov polling shows widespread public support for the creation of community owned, renewable energy projects.

2024-11-22

22.11.2024

A Tale of Two Towns — Map

An interactive map exploring the neoliberal remaking of England’s industrial heartlands.

2024-11-22

22.11.2024

A Tale of Two Towns: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disempowerment in Ex-Industrial England

What do the stories of Mansfield and Corby tell us about the state of contemporary Britain?

2024-04-26

26.04.2024

Plug-in Public Power: The Case for Community Energy Democracy

Joint public ownership will accelerate a just transition and seal local support for stalled community renewables development.

2023-04-27

27.04.2023

Social Value Index: Building the Case for the Democratic Commons in Tottenham

A third way of urban development is possible. Our Social Value Index shows how.

2021-09-26

26.09.2021

A New Model

Mathew Lawrence

2020-11-16

16.11.2020

Green New Deal: Glasgow

2019-11-20

20.11.2019

Democratising Football

Joe Bilsborough

Jonty Leibowitz

Josh Gabert-Doyon

2019-08-14

14.08.2019

Community Wealth Building for Economic and Environmental Justice

Empowering the towns and villages of the UK with a just transition.

Jonty Leibowitz

2019-07-05

05.07.2019

Green New Deal City

The city of 2030.

Mathew Lawrence

Josh Gabert-Doyon

2019-06-27

27.06.2019

Public-Common Partnerships: Building New Circuits of Collective Ownership

A Common Wealth report introducing a new institutional framework for a transformative socialist politics: the Public-Common Partnership (PCP).

2024-07-11

11.07.2024

Interview: Sacha Hilhorst

Amelia Horgan spoke to Sacha Hilhorst about the crisis of legitimacy, deindustrialisation and workers' power.