Team members

Mathew Lawrence

Director

Melanie Brusseler

US Programme Director
2025-05-08
08.05.2025

Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age

The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.
2025-01-23
23.01.2025

A New Green Democratic Republic for the 21st Century

Launching Common Wealth’s US Program.
2025-01-20
20.01.2025

The Next Regime

Defending American democracy requires refounding it for the 21st century.
2019-08-28
28.08.2019

Green New Deal Politics: From Grassroots to Mainstream

Green New Deal policy must centre social movements or risk re-playing the mistakes of the past.
2020-08-25
25.08.2020

Charting a Just and Sustainable Recovery for Scotland: A Plan for Scotland’s Programme for Government

2021-03-08
08.03.2021

Covid-19 and 21st Century Public Ownership

2019-07-05
05.07.2019

Road Map to a Green New Deal: From Extraction to Stewardship

An introduction to Common Wealth's UK Green New Deal.
2019-04-24
24.04.2019

Owning the Future: Toward the Democratic Economy

In the face of crisis, we cannot afford smallness of ambition. An introduction to Common Wealth.
2020-02-11
11.02.2020

Ownership Futures: Towards Democratic Public Ownership in the 21st Century

A year-long investigation into the politics of public ownership.
2020-10-19
19.10.2020

Interview: Peter Geoghegan on Dark Money, Online Advertising, and Electoral Reform

“We've basically outsourced huge aspects of our democracy to tech companies”
2019-08-14
14.08.2019

Green New Deal Devolution

The Green New Deal will require a politics of devolution.
2020-10-05
05.10.2020

Democratic by Design: A New Community Wealth Building Vision for the British Economy After Covid-19

Developing the ecosystem to reconstruct communities and grow local economic democracy across the UK.
2021-05-06
06.05.2021

"Deal or no deal?" Exploring the Potential, Limits and Potential Limits of Green New Deals

The climate crisis requires social – not technological or individualist – solutions.
2020-03-02
02.03.2020

Blueprint for a Green New Deal

From asset management to care work, trade to local government initiatives, what are the next steps for a GND?
2019-08-27
27.08.2019

Anchoring the Green New Deal: Building Transformational Institutions

Institutions need to be reorganised around the Green New Deal, not the other way around.
2025-09-25
25.09.2025

Progressive Politics Beyond Cities

On winning support and fighting Reform.

Beyond Bidenomics

On what is living and what is dead in economic policy.
2024-09-25
25.09.2024

A Fine Balance

On Labour’s fiscal and accounting rules.

Launch Essay: Common Wealth Perspectives

Introducing Common Wealth's new blog.
2025-03-12
12.03.2025

What Will Work: Starmerism and Employment

Promised reforms to employment law, in Parliament this week, are a good first step to driving up the quality of work in Britain, but there are signs of serious trouble and self-limited ambitions ahead.
2023-05-01
01.05.2023

Interview: Elizabeth Anderson

Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to philosopher Elizabeth Anderson about tyranny at work, the power of philosophy, and democracy.
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