There’s a lot to learn from one of our time’s most successful revolutionary movements. Since 2011, the Kurdistan Freedom Movement in Northern Syria has built a radical democracy (sometimes referred to as Rojava) that puts ours to shame. The region’s inhabitants of over 2 million people have organised into hundreds…

“Unemployment for all, not just the rich” — slogan of the Reddit thread r/antiwork It boils my blood to know that millions of young people today are being forced to devote most of their lives to doing shit work for a system that will most likely kill them before their…

**This is from a series of talks given as Youth Climate Swarm, the youth wing organising Just Stop Oil in February 2022. The part after the reality of ecosystem collapse.** If you feel fucking hurt that no one has really said this yet, that no one is talking about this…

Since the 80s dozens of people have reported seeing a large, wild cat roaming the Fens. It’s been dubbed the ‘Fen Tiger’, and it excites Facebook groups and the comment sections of local papers across East Anglia. The Fens are the perfect place to see a tiger. They are flat…

I barely wrote in the last month. I was too out of it. The fatigue and confusion caused by my inflammatory bowel disease made making sense of the illness impossible. Now, on the edge of recovery, I want to try piece things together. Virginia Woolf helps. In 1925, after having…

There’s trouble in the home. Who hasn’t returned from their holidays with a sad story to tell? Who’s not gone through a week of some configuration of anxiety, disconnection and despair? The enormous worldwide problems of our moment have wormed their way into the woodwork of our family houses. For…