Each week the college hosts a community dinner called Ration Club. It's open to anyone who'd like to find out more about the college and its work. To find out more or if you'd like to attend, please register.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our summer BBQ and celebrate another year of Campaign Lab!

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop! 🙂

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Join remotely at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82959644687?pwd=cG9BdEFha3dmNzVjcFd2RUFTWGVNZz09.

Read the manifesto and concrete beliefs

This is our fortnightly discussion group established in the wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling and its consequences; we believe that at this time more than ever we should try to make a positive difference to our people.

At the event we
- exchange information and updates
- establish an informal network of personal connections
- set a direction of what Effective Transsexualism should look like

We hold this event in the classroom in Newspeak House; one of us is going to keep letting you in until 14:15, after that please message us!

​After the discussion group we also hang out informally in Photobookcafe from around 16:30, if you’d like to meet us there feel free to tag along to just that!

Note: We’re aiming this event mostly at transgender people, however cisgender allies (especially if you have information/connections we could leverage!) are welcome too!

Hi - this is an event by Orta Therox and Peter Steinberger. Two well respected technologists who have a strong appreciation for using Claude Code as a tool for writing production-grade software. We’re not associated with Anthropic.

​We wanted to create a space for people to be able to talk through their experiences, and understand that for some it’s hard to speak publicly about using AI / LLM tooling. Talks are not recorded, nor is there a live-stream.

This meetup will be structured as a series of lightning talks, 5-15m long with talks which start along the lines of: “I was X when Claude Code Y”

​So, “I was impressed when Claude Code figured out a bug I had been…”, “I was disappointed when Claude Code deleted my production database” etc.

​We’re looking for grounded talks about the trade-offs, places where you’ve seen usage thrive, ways you’ve helped others use it, insights from unexpected outcomes and how it has changed your perspective.

​The timing plan:

• 19:00 - People arrive
• 19:30 - Intro, COC, and talks
• 20:30 - We wrap up talks, open chat
• 22:00 - We get kicked out

This session is open to the public, however spaces are limited. Registration includes a suggested contribution towards Jethro’s time.

A workshop to get beginners coding with AI tools in an afternoon.

​By the end, you’ll be able to:

• Host your own website with access to a database and chat feature
• Analyse data and produce beautiful charts

​The workshop is led by Newspeak House Fellow Jethro Reeve. He started using AI to code in October 2023, building tools for campaignlab.uk. He’s now a full-time software developer at coefficient.ai.

​A chance for Newspeak House faculty to break bread together before the start of the teaching year.

​A chance for incoming fellowship candidates to break bread with faculty before the year begins.

​A weekend to introduce our new fellowship candidates to the year ahead:

Saturday Morning: Introduction to Political Technology
Saturday Afternoon: Overview of Core Modules
Saturday Evening: Fellows’ Dinner (please register)

​Sunday Morning: Overview of Advanced Modules
Sunday Afternoon: Group Exercise

​Calling all fellows of Newspeak House!

​Please come together for our annual gathering to see the graduation of fellows from 2024 and to welcome new fellowship candidates for 2025. Eat, drink, see some old faces, and hear updates from the college.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, but is open to the public.

​This is a lecture on distributed ledgers and databases. We’ll talk about:

• How do blockchains work?
• Are they helpful in governance?
• Are they actually helpful in governance?
• Are they helpful in other domains of human life?
• Bitcoin
• Ethereum and its L2s
• pod
• DAOs
• aragon.org
• mantle.xyz

​To mark our first decade, Newspeak House presents a series of talks and workshops from fellows and faculty across a full weekend conference. Keep up with the latest developments in the field, meet faces new and old, relax on our terrace, enjoy an all day buffet, and socialise late into the evening. Full programme TBA.

17:00-23:00 Friday 10 October
10:00-23:00 Saturday 11 October
10:00-22:00 Sunday 12 October

Newspeak House 10th Anniversary: a decade of Political Technology

The tenth anniversary of Newspeak House marks a decade shaped by profound political and technological change.

Smartphones. Group chats. Attention algorithms. Crowdfunding. Language models. Cryptocurrencies. Collaborative documents. Streaming. Emoji reacts. Privacy laws. The gig economy. Six UK elections. Brexit. Covid. Momentum. Ukraine. Reform. Gaza. Trump (twice). Cambridge Analytica. The birth and collapse of Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker. Wikidata from zero to a hundred million items.

In that time Newspeak House has hosted thousands of events, launched twenty books, and graduated over a hundred fellows, many now in senior positions across a spectrum of key institutions.

We have supported fledgling movements that are now part of the furniture: impact evaluation, open data, service design, election tech, existential risk, community strategy, campaign innovation, decentralised social media, digital democracy, cognitive security, prediction markets, data journalism, and many more.

Furthermore, Newspeak House has become home for the London College of Political Technology, offering a formal one year programme with a homegrown faculty and original curriculum, with a dedicated classroom and a majority of non-resident students.

To mark our first decade, Newspeak House presents a series of talks and workshops from fellows and faculty across a full weekend conference. Keep up with the latest developments in the field, meet faces new and old, relax on our terrace, enjoy our all day buffet, and socialise late into the evening.

Fundraiser: for the next ten years

If you don’t support your civic institutions, they go away. As well as a conference and celebration, this event is also a fundraiser to secure the future of the college and its role as a community space.

Newspeak House has weathered a series of serious challenges, not least the pandemic and its aftermath. This event is to celebrate overcoming those challenges, becoming one of the very few autonomous and independent third spaces to still be opening its doors. However, these challenges have demolished financial reserves that are difficult to rebuild beyond the college’s normal activities.

It is with this in mind that we have set our prices for this landmark celebration. Your ticket contributes to the ongoing financial health of Newspeak House, as well as scholarships for students in future years. We are extremely grateful for all of your support.

If you’ve enjoyed the programming and facilitation of Newspeak House over the last ten years, now is the time to show your support. If you can’t attend the event, you can still donate or become a member!