A presentation on political prospects and challenges
Jurgen De Wispelaere will be giving a presentation on Basic Income in Our Time: Political Prospects, Political Challenges in London on the 3rd November. Click here for further information
The next BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) Congress will be held in Lisbon from the 25th to the 27th September 2017. (This will be part of the Portuguese Basic Income Read More
On Tuesday 27 September the think tanks Compass and Christians on the Left sponsored a fringe meeting on ‘Universal Basic Income – should Labour lead the Way?’ Speakers included Zoe Williams, Jonathan Read More
There was an uncanny similarity between two referenda held in June: the UK’s referendum on whether to remain in the European Union, and the Swiss referendum on a Citizen’s Income. Read More
Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Trust, Social Capital and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Explaining the flight of the bumblebee, Edward Elgar, 2016, viii + 156 pp, hbk, Read More
On the 1st February 2016 Ronnie Cowan MP asked a written question in Parliament: ‘Department for Work and Pensions: Means-tested Benefits: Operating Costs: Commons25133: To ask the Secretary of State Read More
A report on the launch event for the Compass report Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come? House of Commons, Monday 6th June Committee Room 11 was packed Read More
On Wednesday 14th September a Westminster Hall debate took place about a Universal Basic Income. To watch the debate, click here. (The UBI debate begins at 16.37) The written record Read More