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.

Organised by fellowship candidates from the 2025/26 Introduction to Political Technology programme at Newspeak House. Open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates only. Community members can request to join.

​Join us in the drawing room and terrace for a day of co-working, project development, and informal prototype discussions.

​Faculty: Drop by to offer support, feedback, or advice to people working on projects.

​Fellowship candidates: Use the space to co-work, but please set aside some time to discuss or develop your fellowship prototype.

This event series brings together a group of likeminded LLM users in a room to work for a day on a set challenge. We push the boundaries of what’s possible, share how we use LLM tooling and help each other figure out ‘what actually works, right now’.

​These are organised by Ian Ozsvald, where after 26 years in AI he’s still trying to figure out ‘what actually works’ so he can help his clients make better decisions and generate valuable outcomes. Ian co-founded PyDataLondon (16k members over 11 years of volunteering), co-authored three editions of O’Reilly’s High Performance Python & has helped data science companies realise millions in outcomes from high value projects.

​About the day - we’ll spend the day working on LLM based security with hands on activities. Can it be secured? How are we vulnerable? Knowing that our work practices are safe is of increasing interest to many.

​We’ll solve some LLM hacking challenges via the excellent Lakera Gandalf platform - a safe security platform that’s designed in levels for us to crack our way through, so we learn about well known weaknesses in chatbots and agentic systems.

​We’ll prod at LLMs after abliteration (with their guardrails removed) to see what they know that they usually can’t discuss.

​We’ll discuss safe code development practices (like sandboxes). You’ll end the day with a stronger idea of weaknesses and safe approaches for using LLMs in products and during work.

​Bring your questions, a laptop and a curiosity about this brave new world.

​This will be the 10th playgroup (https://playgroup.org.uk/) organised by Ian Ozsvald

​About you - you’re an active user of LLMs, you have a curiosity about whether they can truly be made safe and you’d like to explore these questions in the company of a likeminded bright group of colleagues.

​Code of Conduct - we follow the Bill and Ted’s “Be Excellent to One Another” doctrine. This is a professional space, be friendly and helpful and professional.

​We’re putting on a summer BBQ for the Campaign Lab community at Newspeak House and it would be great to see you there.

​Whether you’ve been involved with Campaign Lab for years, came to a recent hack night, or just want to meet interesting people working in campaigning, tech and politics, come along for a relaxed evening of food, drinks and conversation.

​We’ll have BBQ food, drinks, and hopefully decent weather!

​Feel free to bring a friend, especially if they’re curious about Campaign Lab or want to get involved in future projects and events.

​What is Campaign Lab?

​Campaign Lab is a community of progressive campaigners, technologists, researchers and organisers building tools and experimenting with new ways to support political campaigning and civic engagement.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

Authenticated Transfer Protocol / ATProto is a protocol and set of open standards for decentralized publishing and distribution of self-authenticating data within the social web. It is best known as the system that powers the Bluesky social network, but can be used for all kinds of things!

We’re hosting ATProto.london summer drinks this edition on the terrace. It will be BYOB though we’ll probably have some non-alcoholic drinks available if you forget. This edition of the event won’t have a particular focus, it’s mostly just to meet up with local Bluesky users and atproto developers.

This session is open to Newspeak House faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates only.

​A space for fellowship candidates to co-work on their prototypes together.

​Drawing room: Co-working and peer learning.

​Classroom: Workshops TBC - talk to Fatima if there’s a topic of interest or if you’d like to run one.

Organised by fellowship candidates from the 2025/26 Introduction to Political Technology programme at Newspeak House. Open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates only. Community members can request to join.

​Join us in the Hall for a day of co-working, project development, and informal prototype discussions.

​Faculty: Drop by to offer support, feedback, or advice to people working on projects.

​Fellowship candidates: Use the space to co-work, but please set aside some time to discuss or develop your fellowship prototype.

​london has a housing crisis, the data to understand it, and argue for fixing it already exists

​house london! is a one-day data sprint bringing together data scientists, urban planners, and policy thinkers to do one thing. take london’s planning and housing data, and tell the most compelling and well-evidenced story you can with it

​no toy problems 🧸

£150 cash prize to the best analysis, as voted by your fellow hackers

​just real datasets, real inquiry and real answers. we’re shaping policy briefs, dashboards and models that could actually shape how london gets built

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​What happens when every council agenda, committee paper and meeting minute becomes searchable?

​Our partners at Poteris have developed a powerful new scraper that collects data from council websites across the UK, creating an unprecedented dataset of council minutes, agendas, reports and other public information.

​Now it’s time to build with it.

​Join Campaign Lab for a hack day exploring what becomes possible when this information is easily accessible. We’ll bring together developers, designers, campaigners, researchers and civic technologists to prototype tools that can help improve local democracy and political campaigning.

​Potential ideas include:

• ​Tools that make local government more transparent
• ​Better ways to monitor council decisions and policy changes
• ​Campaigning and research tools built on council activity
• ​AI-powered search and summarisation
• ​Dashboards, alerts and data visualisations
• ​New civic technology that helps residents, journalists and campaigners engage with local government

​Whether you’re interested in coding, product design, data science, UX, politics or simply have a good idea, there’ll be opportunities to contribute.

​We’ll begin with a short introduction to the dataset and its capabilities before breaking into teams to explore ideas and build prototypes together.

​Who should attend?

• ​Software developers
• ​Data scientists
• ​Designers
• ​Campaigners and organisers
• ​Civic technologists
• ​Local government enthusiasts
• ​Anyone excited by the potential of open public data

​Come and help turn a remarkable new dataset into tools that strengthen civic participation and democratic accountability.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​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.

​Calling all fellows of Newspeak House!

​Please come together for our annual gathering to see the graduation of fellows from 2025 and to welcome new fellowship candidates for 2026.

Eat, drink, see some old faces, and hear updates from the college.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.

​​​​​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. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​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.