​To mark our first decade, Newspeak House is hosting a 10th Anniversary Christmas Party: an evening to gather our community, reconnect with old friends, meet new faces, and celebrate everything this strange experiment has become.

​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 wide spectrum of 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, misinformation, 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 is hosting a 10th Anniversary Christmas Party: an evening to gather our community, reconnect with old friends, meet new faces, and celebrate everything this strange experiment has become.

​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.

​Tickets are now pay-what-you-can. If money is tight, please just come, though if you are in a position to do so and you’ve appreciated the free events we’ve hosted over the past decade, please give generously: this will still be an important fundraiser to help us keep going. 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!