Join us at our next Coffee with Politics Morning

28 November - 10.00-12.30

Friends' Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF

Booking TBA

 

How to have conversations to show we are more united than divided

 

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Speaker: Anthea Simmons, Common Ground

Founder of Common Ground Org, co-founder of South Devon Primary and the Political Primary movement and author of 'The People's Primary' how-to book, Anthea Simmons will be talking about her own political journey from complacent Tory to committed progressive and activist for a better, participatory democracy. She will explore the role of primaries and street conversations in, hopefully, the last election cycle under first past the post, as we strive to mobilise the public to think and act politically.

 

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Anthea Simmon's book

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George Monbiot recently wrote about Common Ground's impactful work in The Guardian.

 

 

 

 

Coming Events:

Coffee with Politics Mornings

16 January 2027  A vision for Sussex. Speaker: Richard Freeman, Always Possible

6 March 2027  AI and its political economy. Speakers to be determined

 

Crossing Divides Practice Groups 

27 November 2026  2:30 at Leonardo Royal Hotel on Brighton waterfront