Neal Lawson writes regularly for The Guardian and the New Statesman, and often appears on TV and radio as a political commentator. He is chair of the new and fast growing pressure group Compass, whose goal is a more equal, cohesive and by extension free world. His influential pamphlet 'Dare More Democracy' was based on interviews with swing-voters in London and Birmingham. Neal is the managing editor of the quarterly progressive policy journal Renewal, and was formerly an adviser to Gordon Brown MP and a trade union researcher. He was co-editor of THE PROGRESS CENTURY (Palgrave, 2001). At the end of 2004 Neal gave up his job as a founding director of a successful communications company to focus full-time on writing and activism.

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