Narrative
Message discipline works - well done Gary
When you have a clear, consistent message and a powerful messenger, you can shift the political weather.
Alex Lockwood
Author and activist.
Democracy
Convening across difference – two months to go
It's time to bring people together to feel part of something bigger.
Democracy
Nigel Farage: a uniquely British witness?
A play about the Russian invasion of Ukraine makes us reflect on the symbolic role that Nigel Farage is performing on Britain’s stage.
Climate
The Curious and the Courageous
The people we need for the political reset we deserve.
Narrative
Narratives need enacting, otherwise they’re just words
A theory for story in service to organising: get on the bike!
Subscriber Links
Links for Subscribers: April
The collection of our Signal chat links from April (into May) for paid subscribers.
Democracy
Policied to Extinction – why the think tanks came after the climate movement
Announcing the launch of Clare Farrell’s Substack, essential analysis for anyone who wants to live in a democracy.
Subscriber Links
Links for Subscribers: March
Dear supporters. Thank you once again for the value you see in our work – and so far, no-one’s unsubscribed!
Hard Art
An angel, a badger and an evil-tempered dad walk into a citizens’ assembly…
Two new absurd interventions in the world this week: a climate comedy novel, and a series of dialogues on assemblies.
Democracy
Trump’s Tariffs on the X-Y Axis of Evil
Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed like many with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in with some sound algebra of his own.
Democracy
40 Ways to Reframe Reform
How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
Risk
Feeling the risk we’re in: an invitation to collaborate
A year-long investigation into provoking emotional realisations of the risks we’re in, in a way that leaves people feeling equipped to act.