Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture, and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

133-135 Bethnal Green Road [email protected]

The front door of Newspeak House

Introducing the 2025-26 Cohort

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Newspeak House is proud to introduce the 2025-26 cohort of fellowship candidates. This year’s group brings experience across political organising, public policy, AI governance, civic and open-source technology, journalism, campaigning, service design, and data science.

Coming from across Europe, the Middle East, and North America, they have worked inside governments and international institutions, built tools for movements and communities, founded startups and parties, and shipped public-interest infrastructure.

We are excited to welcome them to the fellowship and see what they discover and create together this year! To find out more about them and their plans for the year: 2025.newspeak.house

To find out more about the programme itself: Introduction to Political Technology

Events

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As part of our research we offer our spaces for civic communities of practice to convene. Since opening in 2015 we have hosted thousands of events, including lectures, meetups, hackathons, conferences, unconferences, workshops, roundtables, screenings, fundraisers, launches, and exhibitions.

If you’d like to host an event in our space, you can hire it outright, or if you’re convening a civic community of practice do get in touch ([email protected]) to see if it could fit into our programme.

What's On

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Event Details

Ration Club
Wednesdays • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Lounge

Edward Saperia

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.

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Mon 07 SEP 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

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Tue 08 SEP 2026 • 7:00pm – 9:30pm • Newspeak Hall

The Human v The Anti-Human: The Great Meta-Confrontation of the 21st Century

The age of secular materialism is condemning our living planet to death, and the Left is failing to define a vision of humanity that reclaims the spirit of life and the future. The deafening silence of liberalism and the transparent spectre of “the woke” are accomplices to techno-fascism’s rise as we hurtle towards extinction.

What will it take for us to reclaim our care for this world? For each other? To draw a line in the sand against the same stale ideologies that have bought us to this brink of global suicide, and to work together towards something greater?

Our age can be defined by a war of the ‘human’ vs the ‘anti-human’. This war has various fronts - the battle over AI, the battle against big tech’s erosion of democracy, and the battle over the destruction of the biosphere. The world is dying, and core to it all is political corruption married to extreme concentrations of wealth. It is a system that holds infinite growth at all cost to be sacred, and the human to be profane.

This event is not about rehashing some secular reformist left “concern”, or getting lost in an endless post-modernist sludge of constipated critique. It is about exploding into a new passionate love for the human - in all our fullness and glory. It seeks to wage an attack on the dead ideological flatlands of ‘technology as god, instrumentalism as god, and power as god’. It seeks instead to build a new way forward.

This evening’s event consists of 3 provocations on what it means to be human. This is followed by responses, before splitting into break-out groups and discussing among ourselves, then feedback. This will be followed by networking and discussion.

Things do not end there. This event is bought to you by a coalition of groups explicitly working for revolutionary change in the face of extinction. They will take feedback on new concrete ideas on how we resist the end times, imagine a future worth living for, and provide pathways to collective action.

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Sat 12 SEP 2026 • 11:00am – 4:00pm • Hall

​Following on from our first event in May notanother.pizza would like to invite you another day of conversation and hacking about tools for community organisers. Come along for a room full of community organisers and the people who build tools for them, working on real problems together.

​The day consists of a couple of short talks, before we split into groups to work on some problems. Group projects include self-hosting community tools (we’re looking at Bonfire), experimenting with Slack alternatives like Zulip, and sorting out sponsor money/legal setup. Jump between groups, start your own, whatever is most useful for you and your community.

​If you organise a meetup or online community, or build tools for people who do, come along.

Agenda

  • 11:00 Doors open
  • 11:15 Talks TBA
  • 11:45 Form groups
  • 12:15 Working session
  • 13:00 Lunch
  • 13:45 Working session
  • 15:30 Show & tell
  • 16:00 Done
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Sat 12 SEP 2026 • 2:00pm – 5:00pm • Newspeak Hall

A hackathon themed around the Stellar cryptocurrency protocol, organised by H.E.R. DAO, a women led developer DAO championing innovation & inclusion.

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Thu 17 SEP 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Nearby

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

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Fri 18 SEP 2026 • 6:30pm – 10:00pm • Newspeak Hall

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

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Sat 19 SEP 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​In which the Fellowship Candidates of 2026–27 convene to receive their Charter and begin their Constitution.

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Sat 19 SEP 2026 • 7:00pm – 11:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​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.

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Sun 20 SEP 2026 • 9:00am – 5:00pm • Newspeak Hall

​In which the Fellowship Candidates of 2026–27 convene to receive their Charter and begin their Constitution.

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Mon 21 SEP 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

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Sat 26 SEP 2026 • 10:00am – 7:30pm • Newspeak Hall

​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. ​real datasets, real inquiry and real answers. we’re shaping policy briefs, dashboards and models that could actually shape how london gets built. cash prizes to the best projects, as voted by your fellow hackers

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Mon 05 OCT 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

Register ↗
Mon 19 OCT 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

Register ↗
Mon 02 NOV 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

Register ↗
Mon 16 NOV 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

Register ↗
Mon 30 NOV 2026 • 7:00pm – 10:00pm • Drawing Room

​​​​​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.

Register ↗

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