“...that we all need to survive and thrive, in an age teetering between breakdown and breakthrough...crucial for helping us become a larger us rather than a them-and-us.”

Honoring the one-year anniversary of the Progressive International, Arundhati Roy and Ahdaf Soueif engage in a wide-ranging discussion of the present crisis and the meaning of international solidarity in a world of vaccine apartheid.

A useful summary of progressive thought re: the potential for a ‘radical restructuring of our working lives’, from ‘bullshit jobs’ to the four-day week.

Coverage of last week’s event, where Ella Saltmarshe, Carlota Sanz, Kumi Naidoo, Immy Kaur and Andres Roberts, discussed how our stories can help us design an Economy in Service to Life.

‘Right-wingers defend capitalism as a system necessitated by human nature [e.g.], but the market emerged out of specific historic conditions – it isn’t hardwired into our species.’

A share of the Stories for Life project, plus presentations from guests, exploring new stories that are emerging to help us design an economy in service to life.

‘AI is better understood as AT – Artificial Time,’ offering unprecedented access to understanding and radically enhancing our ‘data age’. What does this mean for narrative work?

An appeal to shift the conversation about care from one of ‘cost’ to one of ‘investment’, and to remove it from market and ownership frames.

‘How aligning principles with practice, addressing the power dynamics of collaboration, and nurturing an ecosystem for narrative power can help narrative work succeed.’

Four hopefully familiar approaches that Purpose picked up during their work with several foundations to ‘challenge dominant narratives on economic mobility’.

Visit this virtual exhibition by WWF to explore the artistic responses to their creative call out – 'imagine a future where we put nature at the heart of our decisions...’

A neat shortcut/clarifier of the three-part BBC series ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, by Adam Curtis.