Leafletting the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Meeting
In 2016 we went to two West Yorkshire Combined Authority meetings. First just to sit in and listen to what happened. The second time, Ed Carlisle and Alex Schafran leafleted people going into the meeting, and chalked questions on the pavement outside including "How might devolution be more democratic?".
By all accounts people going into the meeting took it positively, and the staff were pleased that anyone cared enough to go to the trouble!
Afterwards Alex asked Will West Yorkshire have the courage to make Devolution Democratic?.
Programless Spaces, further questions, Sarah Aziz, Neil McKenna
This is an email exchange of follow up questions and answers between Neil McKenna and Sarah Aziz after Sarah's presentation about programless spaces at the …
Amongst the struggles and massive inequality, there is loads of great stuff that really needs shouting about
When we launched our collaborative book of hopeful ideas for Regional Democracy from West Yorkshire, we wanted to promote debate. If you haven’t yet …
Regional Democracy and the EU – a view from West Yorkshire
This blog reflects the personal views of Leila Taleb (Bradford), Andrew Wilson (Huddersfield) and Ian Martin (Leeds). All are members of the Same Skies network …