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.
Links for Subscribers: April
The collection of our Signal chat links from April (into May) for paid subscribers.
On reflecting the goodness of humanity: an invitation
Are you ready to collaborate on how we decide our fate?
How we launched Speak Up mattered – here’s why
Attention to detail is critical if we want to be heard above the noise of our dysfunctional media.
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.
Work for Free
The more of our work we give away for free, the more we create a different (and kinder) culture.
Belonging in fractured Britain: an argument for ritual
If we're going to pull together as a country, we need to get back to our rituals.
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!
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.
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.
The Network is The Strategy, Part Two: in Praise of Fred Hampton
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
The Network is The Strategy, Part One: Last Exit From La-La Land
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.
What qualities should the next Archbishop of Canterbury have?
This is Absurd Intelligence’s inaugural guest post: by Liz Slade, the first woman leading the Unitarian General Assembly in its 96 year history