We all have a responsibility. That’s never been more clear as the world rapidly turns upside down and inside out. To be passive in the times we’re in, when the harm being caused is self-evident, broadcast daily, unavoidable, is surely to live a life disconnected from reality.
Activism
At the inaugural Adam Curtis Party Conference in Bournemouth.
Britishness
What do the marches in Dover and Portsmouth by masked men this past weekend tell us about the loneliness epidemic?
Can libraries be the inspiration we need to build a new democracy from the bottom up, rooted in love and care for our communities?
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Right and left have failed us, and the centre cannot hold. Are you tired of pretending the slo-mo disaster movie doesn’t star us? And are you ready to do the previously unthinkable? Part one of two: the broken models of behaviour we need to escape.
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
Those of us who have been around the movement for many years can think back to a time we would tell ourselves, “When rich people in LA start losing their homes, things will change”...
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
The third in our summer series of Absurd Ideas for making a new world, this time from our Clare in response to the fires across Europe, and the mainstream media’s lacking response.
The second in our summer series of Absurd Ideas for making a new world takes us back a season, and puts a spring into the nation’s step.
This is the first in our summer series of absurd ideas on how we would create a better world if we were in charge...
In a north Wales horror film shopping centre you can see a new world (that’s as old as time) being made. And it’s beautiful.
We're creating spaces for people to practice democracy with each other, IRL. Want to join?
The spaces for community exist - but what do local people need to bring them to life? A guest post by Fun Palaces' Executive Producer.
Searching for belonging, young men are being seduced by a corrupt version of martial arts.
It's possible for us to survive into radically different futures with our humanity intact. But how will we stay in our hearts and minds on the journey?
A guest post by Ed Gillespie from the Out There festival in Great Yarmouth, in all its brilliance.
A guest post from Anthea Lawson, whose new book How Not To Save The World offers antidotes to common pitfalls of change-making and activism.
From Swansea to the Southbank in one weekend, Part 2. (First published in Byline Times May 2026 edition)
From Swansea to the Southbank in a weekend, Part One. (First published in Byline Times June 2026 edition)
