At last month’s People Power Conference I argued that British campaigns tend to succeed when the changes they are demanding are morally right, technically sound and publically popular. Those bars are so high that few organisations clear them every time – and far too many are needlessly falling short by assuming that they don’t need […]

Once again turnout was down in the recent local elections, confirming a long-term trend of disengagement with both UK political parties-membership is at an all-time low and, crudely, less people are voting, in particular, less younger people are voting. Then, this week, I read of yet another web based campaign resource, Change.org, setting up a […]

A couple of weeks ago I sat in a meeting of over a hundred parents and professionals, looking at better provisions for families of disabled children. There were two local MP’s in the audience pledging their support to work for change and take up the parents’ concerns. But, everyone knew that the person in the […]