The Society Project
@thesocietyproject.bsky.social
Society isn't working. But we have the power to change it. The Society Project is dedicated to building a fairer economy, politics and society.
https://thesocietyproject.org.uk/
https://thesocietyproject.org.uk/
Individuals do not have equal status in our economic system & states do not represent humanity; they govern it. States are too arbitrary in their action & the private sector is regressive. Rights need to be built around a third pillar of our economy Please read @ rethinkeconomics.org/blog/2025/11...
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Individuals do not have equal status in our economic system & states do not represent humanity; they govern it. States are too arbitrary in their action & the private sector is regressive. Rights need to be built around a third pillar of our economy Please read @ rethinkeconomics.org/blog/2025/11...
Progressives must build an economy purposed to serve all.
No longer attaching our credibility to the deceit that redistribution alone works. Beyond the patronage of state collectivism, towards market collectivism, a Peoples' Sector, instigated by the state
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No longer attaching our credibility to the deceit that redistribution alone works. Beyond the patronage of state collectivism, towards market collectivism, a Peoples' Sector, instigated by the state
peterellis01.substack.com/p/radicalism...
October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Progressives must build an economy purposed to serve all.
No longer attaching our credibility to the deceit that redistribution alone works. Beyond the patronage of state collectivism, towards market collectivism, a Peoples' Sector, instigated by the state
peterellis01.substack.com/p/radicalism...
No longer attaching our credibility to the deceit that redistribution alone works. Beyond the patronage of state collectivism, towards market collectivism, a Peoples' Sector, instigated by the state
peterellis01.substack.com/p/radicalism...
Ultra-capitalists invest in the private sector. Govts who believe in a fair society can invest to build a purpose-driven, non-private sector, creating activity and wealth for our collective benefit. And personally thru affordability for consumers. We are collectively a society with rights.
August 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ultra-capitalists invest in the private sector. Govts who believe in a fair society can invest to build a purpose-driven, non-private sector, creating activity and wealth for our collective benefit. And personally thru affordability for consumers. We are collectively a society with rights.
Public ownership helps but does NOT change the systemic drivers of the economy and lacks permanence. It is limited in its ambition. We need an ethically purposed alternative to the private sector, operating across the market economy, delivering affordability thru activity benefitting us collectively
Looking forward to our event with @labourlist.bsky.social
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Sunday 28th September, 13:30-14:30 in Liverpool
Public ownership offers a unifying, popular alternative to divisive politics
Voters across all parties want it, the government must deliver it 💧💡🚄🚌📮🏥
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Sunday 28th September, 13:30-14:30 in Liverpool
Public ownership offers a unifying, popular alternative to divisive politics
Voters across all parties want it, the government must deliver it 💧💡🚄🚌📮🏥
🌹 Spend Conference with your friends at LabourList at our brilliant programme of events - full details here 🔽
August 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Public ownership helps but does NOT change the systemic drivers of the economy and lacks permanence. It is limited in its ambition. We need an ethically purposed alternative to the private sector, operating across the market economy, delivering affordability thru activity benefitting us collectively
Thx to Will and the Fairness Foundation for sharing these ideas on how to build a fairer society. It's not fantasy. We have the resources to repurpose the economy. Wealth belongs fairly to us all. We just need the political imagination to make it happen
www.faircomment.co.uk/p/building-a...
Peter
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Peter
August 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Thx to Will and the Fairness Foundation for sharing these ideas on how to build a fairer society. It's not fantasy. We have the resources to repurpose the economy. Wealth belongs fairly to us all. We just need the political imagination to make it happen
www.faircomment.co.uk/p/building-a...
Peter
www.faircomment.co.uk/p/building-a...
Peter
Yes, "human life has equal value", but which collective entity holds our equal economic & human rights? State ownership fails, it's impermanent - govts change.The economy trundles on under the logic of shareholder supremacy."New politics" requires a new repurposed economy & Society is the COLLECTIVE
August 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Yes, "human life has equal value", but which collective entity holds our equal economic & human rights? State ownership fails, it's impermanent - govts change.The economy trundles on under the logic of shareholder supremacy."New politics" requires a new repurposed economy & Society is the COLLECTIVE
An economy supplying affordable essentials will not come from businesses maximising profit. Welfare is impermanent & depends on govt. Govt needs vision, demanded through OUR political will. To repurpose for whose benefit the economy operates (for consumers and wider society #faireconomy
Over 7 million low-income households were going without essentials in the 6 months to May 🚨
This number has been at least 7 million since Oct 2022. The Govt must boost living standards so that low-income families can finally feel some reprieve
Our latest COL tracker: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...
This number has been at least 7 million since Oct 2022. The Govt must boost living standards so that low-income families can finally feel some reprieve
Our latest COL tracker: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...
A year of Labour but no progress: JRF’s cost of living tracker, summer 2025
A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.
www.jrf.org.uk
July 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
An economy supplying affordable essentials will not come from businesses maximising profit. Welfare is impermanent & depends on govt. Govt needs vision, demanded through OUR political will. To repurpose for whose benefit the economy operates (for consumers and wider society #faireconomy
Charging customers to make risk acceptable for private investors is wrong policy, wrong lens. With sewers didn't lead to ethical water cos. Instead use private & govt financed capital & pricing to finance projects thru societal cos purposed to operate for consumer best-interest pricing in the future
July 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Charging customers to make risk acceptable for private investors is wrong policy, wrong lens. With sewers didn't lead to ethical water cos. Instead use private & govt financed capital & pricing to finance projects thru societal cos purposed to operate for consumer best-interest pricing in the future
Laura Reinke called on BBC for public ownership of Thames W, but not nationalisation. Yes, absolutely! It needs to be societised. Ethically purposed to serve consumer and society's best interest. We have the govt and impactful commercial capital to finance investment. To do so is a political choice.
We’re here outside City Hall making some noise and holding Thames Water to account! Let’s give a voice to the River Thames! 💪💙
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Laura Reinke called on BBC for public ownership of Thames W, but not nationalisation. Yes, absolutely! It needs to be societised. Ethically purposed to serve consumer and society's best interest. We have the govt and impactful commercial capital to finance investment. To do so is a political choice.
Purpose determines ethics & outcomes - ownership models for whose benefit purpose operates. "Not-for-profit" label diminishes the potential for purpose to change society @notforprofit.bsky.social. It is political! Radical,systemic Gen Change means connecting societal rights of purpose to the economy
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July 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Purpose determines ethics & outcomes - ownership models for whose benefit purpose operates. "Not-for-profit" label diminishes the potential for purpose to change society @notforprofit.bsky.social. It is political! Radical,systemic Gen Change means connecting societal rights of purpose to the economy
Liberalism (& radicalism) "is compatible with a range of economic models". There is no "institutional humility". Which is why the economic & political choices of the 82% who want a more equal society need to be embedded in the economy through enterprises neither state or shareholder owned.
July 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Liberalism (& radicalism) "is compatible with a range of economic models". There is no "institutional humility". Which is why the economic & political choices of the 82% who want a more equal society need to be embedded in the economy through enterprises neither state or shareholder owned.
What is the IT we aspire to own? Targeted, purposeful nationalisation is essential, but as night follows day, it is followed by privatisation. Shareholder interest trundles on relentlessly whoever governs. The IT is the market economy. The big issue impacting lives. This should be 'owned' by us all.
The Railways Bill is good news for rail - BUT private companies are already lobbying govt to let them have 'an ongoing role' on the rail network.
Passengers need public ownership of rail to truly deliver for them. Here's how your MP can make sure of it.
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Passengers need public ownership of rail to truly deliver for them. Here's how your MP can make sure of it.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/grea...
Make Great British Railways Truly Great - take action | We Own It
Passengers need public ownership of rail to truly deliver for them. Here's how your MP can make sure of it.
weownit.org.uk
July 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What is the IT we aspire to own? Targeted, purposeful nationalisation is essential, but as night follows day, it is followed by privatisation. Shareholder interest trundles on relentlessly whoever governs. The IT is the market economy. The big issue impacting lives. This should be 'owned' by us all.
When the state seeks a "whole society endeavour" to remilitarise, funds for welfare have to be fought for. When what we need is a whole society economy which is fair in the first place. It is about vision and our rights to a repurposed economy. A moral issue. A political choice.
June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When the state seeks a "whole society endeavour" to remilitarise, funds for welfare have to be fought for. When what we need is a whole society economy which is fair in the first place. It is about vision and our rights to a repurposed economy. A moral issue. A political choice.
Govts come and go, policy changes, poor remain poor. New model must embed permanent rights, the same as those enjoyed by shareholders but for society and consumer best-interest. Purposeful & wealth creating that we can all share. A '3rd-way' giving us all rights over the distributive, market economy
June 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Govts come and go, policy changes, poor remain poor. New model must embed permanent rights, the same as those enjoyed by shareholders but for society and consumer best-interest. Purposeful & wealth creating that we can all share. A '3rd-way' giving us all rights over the distributive, market economy
The reason we suffer environmental destruction is also why the poor remain poor and there are only secondary rights to social and economic justice. We divest primary economic power in those with existing wealth. We need collective rights over the economy. A radical "third-way". Rights not patronage.
I think Zack Polanski is excellent at connecting social economic justice with saving the planet, and that's very necessary. It's difficult to get voters worried about environmental destruction when they're worried about paying for food & rent. #BackZack
June 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The reason we suffer environmental destruction is also why the poor remain poor and there are only secondary rights to social and economic justice. We divest primary economic power in those with existing wealth. We need collective rights over the economy. A radical "third-way". Rights not patronage.
Nationalisation ruled out, regulation failing, prices up, private sector runs scared cause not 'enough' profit 🤑 Need ethics - consumers affordable, social tariffs. Only way - societise water! Purpose driven. Steward-owned, govt & people (not by shareholders) giving perm. rights & returns for us all
June 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Nationalisation ruled out, regulation failing, prices up, private sector runs scared cause not 'enough' profit 🤑 Need ethics - consumers affordable, social tariffs. Only way - societise water! Purpose driven. Steward-owned, govt & people (not by shareholders) giving perm. rights & returns for us all
Lived experience & values -we r diverse-yet our economy (& politics) r binary; shareholder owned & govt regulated & managed. Economic, political and social rights are linked. Outcome, opportunity and equality depend on breaking their link to pre-existing wealth. A people's economy, societal future!
We need a new system.
To get there, we need new narratives for how we talk about the system.
Narratives that link economic policies to people's lived experiences.
That's one of the reasons Rethinking Economics exists! Join us: www.rethinkeconomics.org/get-involved/
To get there, we need new narratives for how we talk about the system.
Narratives that link economic policies to people's lived experiences.
That's one of the reasons Rethinking Economics exists! Join us: www.rethinkeconomics.org/get-involved/
May 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Lived experience & values -we r diverse-yet our economy (& politics) r binary; shareholder owned & govt regulated & managed. Economic, political and social rights are linked. Outcome, opportunity and equality depend on breaking their link to pre-existing wealth. A people's economy, societal future!
Land value tax, yes, but tax policy is impermanent. As PTG writes, the "mkt (won't) fix what it has helped to break". New build is a means, affordability a purpose. Mkts need to be reformed by incentivising new forms of affordable tenure-Reshaping private mkts to operate permanently as societal ones
How can we rethink how we value and tax land to help solve the housing crisis in the UK?
A fairer system of land development
A guest post from Peter Taylor-Gooby, Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent
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May 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Land value tax, yes, but tax policy is impermanent. As PTG writes, the "mkt (won't) fix what it has helped to break". New build is a means, affordability a purpose. Mkts need to be reformed by incentivising new forms of affordable tenure-Reshaping private mkts to operate permanently as societal ones
The greatest economic delusion is shared across politics; that governments can build a fair society through redistribution,whilst shareholder self-interest has a monopoly over the mkt economy. Our economy needs to be fairer in the first place. Societal, reformist, purpose-driven & people empowered.
So, have you told the truth about Brexit, immigration, social care, ‘levelling up’, tax, NetZero… about 14yrs abusing power?
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
No.
You spend your life on a disinformation hellsite and you don’t call out “the lies and delusions that dominate Westminster” because your party is neck-deep in all of them.
May 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The greatest economic delusion is shared across politics; that governments can build a fair society through redistribution,whilst shareholder self-interest has a monopoly over the mkt economy. Our economy needs to be fairer in the first place. Societal, reformist, purpose-driven & people empowered.
Pension funds hold our money. Consumers bills rise to pay for water infrastructure. Govt invests & supports the economy with our money. OUR collective societal financial capital is available to invest. What return do we get, incl affordability. What benefits & RIGHTS through non-capitalist purpose?
This is really interesting.
The Labour government has got 17 workplace pension providers covering 90% of active savers’ defined contribution pensions to agree to invest at least 10% of their funds into key infrastructure projects and assets, mostly in the UK. It could see up to £50bn invested.
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The Labour government has got 17 workplace pension providers covering 90% of active savers’ defined contribution pensions to agree to invest at least 10% of their funds into key infrastructure projects and assets, mostly in the UK. It could see up to £50bn invested.
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Pension schemes back British growth
Mansion House Accord unlocks up to £50 billion investment for the economy, with first commitments to invest in the UK.
www.gov.uk
May 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pension funds hold our money. Consumers bills rise to pay for water infrastructure. Govt invests & supports the economy with our money. OUR collective societal financial capital is available to invest. What return do we get, incl affordability. What benefits & RIGHTS through non-capitalist purpose?
Policy has systemic failure built into it. The "whole society effort" Starmer calls for, demands a whole society economy serving the needs of the people first. Power and time is not the problem, it's the courage to use that power in new ways. Right-wing narratives prevail, cause economic ones do too
V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
May 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Policy has systemic failure built into it. The "whole society effort" Starmer calls for, demands a whole society economy serving the needs of the people first. Power and time is not the problem, it's the courage to use that power in new ways. Right-wing narratives prevail, cause economic ones do too
Our economy can and should deliver affordability and wealth sufficient to finance social need. Thesocietyproject.org.uk present a HOW? in the latest blog Affordable Essentials - A Fairer Economy in the first place thesocietyproject.org.uk/affordable-e...
Illustration by Bex Gilbert
Illustration by Bex Gilbert
April 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Our economy can and should deliver affordability and wealth sufficient to finance social need. Thesocietyproject.org.uk present a HOW? in the latest blog Affordable Essentials - A Fairer Economy in the first place thesocietyproject.org.uk/affordable-e...
Illustration by Bex Gilbert
Illustration by Bex Gilbert
Farage @Today @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social - "let consumers decide whether to buy chlorine treated chicken or not" - consumer choice IS POLITICAL. Attach consumer choice to non-shareholder owned enterprise and we build real reform. Empowering rights of the general population, the poor & marginalised.
BBC Today programme once again offers rioting Farage a jolly ‘blokes in the pub’ type interview to promote his campaign this morning and failing to offer any scrutiny. Weak. Weak. Weak.
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BBC Radio 4 - Today
Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day
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March 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Farage @Today @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social - "let consumers decide whether to buy chlorine treated chicken or not" - consumer choice IS POLITICAL. Attach consumer choice to non-shareholder owned enterprise and we build real reform. Empowering rights of the general population, the poor & marginalised.
Customers will pay 26% more on bills to deal with a lack of infrastructure investment. We are societal stakeholders, providing funds for investment. If we pay the bills to fund this investment, we should receive benefits too. Lower prices, purpose-driven affordability and ethical outcomes in return.
March 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Customers will pay 26% more on bills to deal with a lack of infrastructure investment. We are societal stakeholders, providing funds for investment. If we pay the bills to fund this investment, we should receive benefits too. Lower prices, purpose-driven affordability and ethical outcomes in return.
We live in a world serving those who own. But think of consumers' political will challenging Musk thru Tesla. Imagine the political power of 8 bn, 70 million in the UK using their buying power in favour of enterprises operating for purposes benefiting them, society, the poor and marginalised.
March 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We live in a world serving those who own. But think of consumers' political will challenging Musk thru Tesla. Imagine the political power of 8 bn, 70 million in the UK using their buying power in favour of enterprises operating for purposes benefiting them, society, the poor and marginalised.