Who am I and why should you care?

If you've not come across me or my book before, there's more information about both on the book's website which is here.

So far, most who have read the book have liked it. Tony Benn liked it so much he agreed to speak at the book's launch, which pleased me firstly because I have always admired Benn (although I have not always agreed with him) and secondly, because, although the book is about social justice, it does not advocate a traditional socialist solution to problems of poverty and inequality.

For an insight into some of the themes and conclusions of the book, you might take a look an article of mine in the Guardian last year, which you can find here.

I plan to update this blog regulary with comments on, and links to all kinds of resources about, anything to do with the prospects for progressive social change. There may also be a some reviews and other cultural stuff as the mood takes me: there's politics in everything!

There will also be links to my writing on the Guardian's impressive group blog, Comment is Free, my back catalogue of which can be found here; links to work published elsewhere; and, most importantly, links to work that is only available here.

Thanks for stopping by.