Licence and reuse
Short version. Original writing on PGW Report is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). You are free to share, adapt, translate, build on, and commercially use the work, provided you credit the source. Quoted third-party material, personal photographs, and the live tracker dataset retain their own terms as noted below.
What CC-BY 4.0 lets you do
Under the CC-BY 4.0 licence you may:
- Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt, remix, transform, or build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.
- Translate the material into any language.
- Quote the material in your own work, including in academic or political research.
- Republish entire pieces on your own site, in a newsletter, or on social media.
The licence is granted on a single condition: attribution. You must credit the source in a reasonable manner, with a link back to the original page where practical.
How to credit the source
The standard credit form is:
If you are quoting a specific piece, add the piece title and URL:
In running prose, a sentence like "as Paul G Webster argues in his PGW Report piece on Reform UK's financial architecture..." with a hyperlink to the source article is also fine and meets the attribution requirement.
What is not covered by CC-BY 4.0
The licence applies to original writing produced by Paul G Webster for PGW Report. The following are excluded and retain their own terms:
- Quoted third-party material. Direct quotations from news articles (Guardian, BBC, ITV, Telegraph, and so on), parliamentary publications, Hansard, and other third-party sources remain under the original publisher's copyright. Fair-dealing or fair-use applies to the inclusion of those quotes inside PGW Report pieces; the same fair-use limits apply if you reuse a PGW Report piece that contains them.
- Personal photographs. The author portrait, the Lincolnshire farmland header image, and any other personal photographs on the site are not under CC-BY 4.0 and may not be redistributed without permission. Email paul@pgw.report if you have a specific use case.
- The 2026 cohort tracker dataset. The structured councillor-change tracker at /council-changes-2026/ is the working output of an ongoing editorial process. Cross-referencing single entries with citation is fine. Bulk redistribution of the full dataset, or use of the dataset to train a commercial model, should be discussed first; email tracker@pgw.report with the use case.
- Logos, branding, and the PGW Report name. The site name, brand colours, and any logo assets are not under CC-BY 4.0. You may reference the name when crediting; you may not present yourself as PGW Report or imply endorsement.
Translations and derivative works
Translations and derivative adaptations are explicitly welcome. If you translate a piece into a non-English language or adapt it for a local-government newsletter, please credit the original and link back to the source page. Sharing a copy of your translation or adaptation with paul@pgw.report is not required but is appreciated, both as a courtesy and because it helps to track where the work is being used.
Why CC-BY 4.0
PGW Report exists to make political and economic analysis more available, not less. The site's editorial standard is that every claim is auditable against primary sources, which means the work is built on top of other people's published material and is intended to flow back into the broader public conversation in the same way. CC-BY 4.0 is the licence that matches that intent: free reuse, free adaptation, free translation, credit required.
For the technical details and the canonical legal text, see the CC-BY 4.0 legal code on the Creative Commons site.
Questions
For licensing questions, attribution help, or specific use cases that fall outside the patterns above, email paul@pgw.report.