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Look at the way power & responsibility are distributed around society today and ask: can’t we do better? Question the Powerful promotes political understanding and democratic action through a range of publications, guidance, and talks. (For more info, click on ‘Henry Tam: Words & Politics’ under ‘Menu’).

Saturday, 16 September 2023

Fiddlers on the Hoof: Con Politics Explained

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In the 2010s, UKIP pulled Con politics in the UK further and further to the right. From 2016, Trump dragged Con politics in the US in a simi...

Friday, 1 September 2023

Counter-Enlightenment, Anti-Woke

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The ‘Anti-Woke’ bandwagon has been picking up speed in stirring up anger and resentment against ideas that annoy reactionaries. Exposing pre...

Wednesday, 16 August 2023

The Theft of Political Clothes

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From time to time, we hear one political party fretting about another party stealing their clothes. If people want their ideas and policies ...

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

Crimes Against Democracy

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Since 2010, democracy in the UK has suffered from numerous attempts by Conservative-led governments to undermine it. In 2014, the method for...

Sunday, 16 July 2023

Čapek’s Empathy Test

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2023 marks the centenary of the first staging of Karel Čapek ’s revolutionary play, R.U.R. in England – at the St. Martin’s Theatre, West ...

Saturday, 1 July 2023

The Newcomer Paradox

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Social capital research has often found that when an area experiences an influx of new people, there tends to be a drop in the general level...

Friday, 16 June 2023

Ur-Fascism & the Nationalistic Right

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There are two notable fascist behavioural traits: one is the readiness to deny that one is a fascist because one does not share every single...

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Henry Benedict Tam: Director of ‘Question the Powerful’ project. Author of academic studies & dystopian novels. Policy expert on communitarian governance. Educator (WEA; Cambridge University; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, London University).

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