The Autonomy Data Unit is building tools to help progressive actors meet the escalating challenges of the present 📈
From machine learning, to web scraping, large language models and more, we're empowering journalists, trade unions and campaigns to resist the rise of the far right — and build a better economy 🤝
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The Autonomy Institute: creating data-driven tools and policy to strengthen democracy and build the future economy 📈
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NEW REPORT | 'The Property Premium' – new research, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that being a private landlord has been England's best investment over the previous decade, offering new context for the policy debate over rent controls
#housing #rent #policymaking
Mexico City built the largest free public Wi-Fi network on Earth.
More than 35,000 hotspots across the city. No password. No registration. No fee. Public internet on the metro, in hospitals, in schools, in housing, and across the street network.
And the idea has now gone national: free public internet is written into Mexican federal law as a state commitment.
Should every city have free public broadband?
Let us know what you think below. 👇
#PublicInternet #FreeWiFi #MexicoCity #DigitalRights #PublicInfrastructure #UniversalBasicServices #DigitalInclusion #Broadband #InternetAccess #SmartCities
This summer, Scotland gets its first public diner in around 60 years.
Opening in Dundee as part of a 12-month research pilot, the diner asks a simple but radical question: what if a good, affordable meal in a decent room was treated as everyday public infrastructure?
Not charity. Not luxury. Open to everyone.
Scotland once had a network of British Restaurants. By the 1960s, they were gone. Now, one pilot is bringing the idea back to the high street.
Should public diners become part of how we tackle food inequality today?
Let us know what you think below. 👇
#PublicDiner #Dundee #FoodInequality #UniversalBasicServices #PublicFood #Scotland #FoodJustice #HighStreet #PublicInfrastructure
City-run grocery stores in NYC? 🛒🏙️💸
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says five public-option supermarkets are coming — one in every borough — with essential food sold below market prices. No tobacco, no lottery tickets, just affordable groceries. May the cheapest shop win 👀🍎🥦
Should the UK try this too? 🇬🇧🛍️ Let us know below.
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NEW REPORT | A #4dayweek could save local government around the UK £1 billion a year – and help to restore services depleted by over a decade of austerity 📈
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EVENT - NEXT MONDAY (13th April)
We'll be joined by @ellietheelement and Réka Patrícia Gál to discuss how billionaires are shaping contemporary space exploration, in the latest of our CADA speaker series 🚀
18:30, Newspeak House, Bethnal Green
Link in bio for tickets
On 24 April 1932, approximately 400 young workers — mostly from Manchester, with a smaller Sheffield contingent — staged a mass trespass on Kinder Scout, the highest point in the Peak District. The land was owned by the Duke of Devonshire and kept exclusively for grouse shooting, patrolled year-round by gamekeepers despite being used for shooting only around twelve days a year. The trespass was organised by the Manchester branch of the British Workers’ Sports Federation, led by Benny Rothman, then aged 20, a Jewish anti-fascist mechanic and member of the Young Communist League.
Between 1940 and the early 60s, the British government ran over two thousand restaurants across the UK. Three courses. Commissioned artwork. Open to everyone. £3 in today’s money. What if we brought Churchill’s “British Restaurants” back?
