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.
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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
It’s time to Speak Up for the world we want
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
40 Ways to Reframe Reform
How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
How do we rehabilitate activism?
There’s a clear strategy behind the character assassination of climate activists – it’s our job to counter it
Who was cheering for violence this week? The political diary of Ed Miliband
Exclusive insights into climate politics from the diary of a Net-Zed-er
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.
The Diary of Ed Miliband, aged 55+1/4
Announcing our new columnist: we are delighted to be serialising Ed's private diary each Monday on Absurd Intelligence.
How time travel is the key to coping with The Shitshow.
Using the lesser known Greek concepts of time, Kairos and Aion, to save us from the tyranny of Chronos.
Climate
Why we started Absurd Intelligence
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”...
Climate
Why are we not listening to the will of the people on climate?
We are the whopping majority. Ordinary, good people who want the best for each other. And we care deeply about the climate.
Culture
Hard Art: an invitation
A reminder that we can, and will, together forge a better world.
Climate
The Future of Action
The future needs to be constructed differently. It needs new systems that won’t lead to the same outcomes. If the future’s going to work at all, we need new decision-making systems
Culture
Design differently
One of the founders of Absurd Intelligence, Clive Russell gave this talk to the WDCD Live Amsterdam 2024 on "designing differently".
Climate
Whole Truth Five letter
The Absurd Intelligence team helped our friends at Save Our Juries write and gather support for an open letter protesting the outrageous sentences handed down to five people for nonviolent protest - the highest sentences this country has ever seen for these actions.
Climate
What does Walney want?
Britain’s political class knows their very profitable system of supremacy is under threat. That’s why they are the real extremists.