Jason Leman

Writer and campaigner Peter Macfadyen tells us about Flatpack Democracy’s mission to make decision-making in councils participatory – and the upcoming Flatpack 2021 campaign.

We need to stop looking for leaders who embody our desires, identities and dreams. Whenever the clay of democracy starts to dry, we need to wet it again – or we risk our leaders moulding us.

Coronavirus sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. In the distant future in a land far, far away. Now it's the plastic…

Sheffield Council has passed a motion supporting a pilot of Universal Basic Income (UBI), after the Shadow Chancellor said that a future…

I'm going to tell you how we can clear up the mess that is the world. We'll start small though. We'll start with clearing up dog mess.I…

Sheffield councillors have been asked to back a local pilot to test radical reforms to the welfare system.Universal Basic Income (UBI)…

A new one-day festival exploring the future of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being launched in Sheffield on 9 March.'Basic Income: How Do…

Anne van Dalen is a Dutch artist currently living in Zwijndrecht, a village in The Netherlands. For the past year, Anne has been the…

The recent consultation on creating school places in Sheffield was controversial and possibly illegal. There's a feeling that the Council…

Richard Wilkinson is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham. He studies the relationship between health…

King John’s tax collectors took every last groat from low-paid labourers, leaving them without food or shelter. A few hundred years later,…

Tax has long been a dirty word. King John’s inspectors used to take the last groat from starving peasants. In our modern world of shiny…

Which political party do you support? How about Labour, as your father and father's father has done? Or Conservatives and Kippers with…

There's a baby boom and we need more room. It's time to build more houses. Parents and grandparents and kids all in one house again. It's…

Work is valued in two ways. There’s social value and what the job pays. We need nursery workers to look after kids, care workers to check…

I was buying a pair of swimming goggles for my daughter, but they only had blue. ‘We only have blue, is that ok?’ said the man behind the…

At the end of January the Sheffield Fairness Commission released its final report. The Commission was a group of people from faith groups,…

Hello. As MP for Bollinger on the Mange I have noticed a lot of misunderstanding of late from the more unfortunate amongst us, such as…

You've got to be prepared. It's always good to have some food about, like some tins of beans. Or bread. Bread mould isn't poisonous, you…

For politicians, promising to make things "fairer" is the new baby kissing. You wonder what the alternative is. "Vote me and I'll make your…