Accidental Gods

Laws of Nature, Laws with Nature: Nature on Board with Alexandra Pimor of the Earth Law Center

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Across the world, our legal systems are crumbling, the rule of sane law dismantled in real time. Yet at the same time, rivers, mountains, bees are bei...

What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiol...

Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If we ever had a genuine democracy (and I would argue we never have) then it is clearly disintegrating now, along with the entire system with which it...

Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas of the incoming year with grace and courage (Manda solo)

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well…2025 was the year the masks came off the old system: nobody is pretending it's there to help us, or that those who have stolen the reins of pow...

Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconven...

December Solstice meditation - suitable northern and southern hemispheres

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here's our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 - please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connection...

Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into thei...

Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year.   Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the ...

Barefoot Economics in a world of Hobnailed Boots with storyteller Inze Aponte

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to...

Roots to Health - building Food Resilience at all Scales with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food... but the steps to getting the...

Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love?  To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power a...

The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you love the dark?  Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you?  Most of u...

Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week's guest, Andrea Leiter, is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of t...

Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break?  This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there...

Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the...

ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of the EQUUS

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture ...

Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind.  Do you think you were put here for something less?' Ch...

Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is humanity for?  What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entire role as beings on a living planet?  These are t...

Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let the Wild Gods Rise.  Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all ...

The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?How can we craft narr...

A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between ourselves and the rest of the living web—between ourse...

Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. The first is that economies have to grow to be...

The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as...

Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency.  But the tide is turning and people of good heart in man...

PopShift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationshi...

Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti - and Tim Logan

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's podcast I was honoured to join a four-way conversation between Giovanna and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Tim Logan of Future Learn...

From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the midst of the Great Transformation, one of the most exciting changes taking place is in our capacity to find what makes our hearts sing - to fin...

Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers and even ancient fu...

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Water is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Three Asks, the non-negotiable baselines that underpin...

People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that our 'democracy' is, in fact, a kleptocracy that is not fit for purpose IF that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth. The ...

Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're on the edge of a cliff and the way out is through - through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism. ...

Still In the Eye of the Storm: Finding Calm and Stable Roots with Dan McTiernan of Being EarthBound

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our priority now is to find -and then embody - a sense of grounded stability, a sense of safety, a sense of embodied connection to the Web of Life... ...

Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can wor...

Solstice Meditation 2025 - Sun Stands Still - by Manda Scott

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here is a meditation for the Solstice – the moment when the sun stands still.It is suitable for Summer and Winter solstice. You don't have to do th...

Thoughts from the Solstice Edge: Turning the Page on a Dying System with Manda Scott

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we head into the solstice- that moment when the sun stands still—whether you're in the northern hemisphere where we have the longest day, or the ...

Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change.  Co-founder of Transition Network and of Transition Town ...

ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I believe the way forward is predicated on our finding shared values—I'd go f...

This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we live, care and do business together? How can we best ...

Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation's leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sh...

Farm as Church, Land as Lover: Community. farming and food with Abel Pearson of Glasbren

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know the future rests upon us building heart-grounded, spirit-led communities that link humanity to the Web of Life. We know that the key to th...

Working from the Inside Out: Paths to Personal and Global Transformation with Renée Lertzman

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've known for decades that the 'Yell, Tell and Sell' strategy of belittling people, endeavouring to cajole—or shame—them into some kind of chang...

The Others Within Us: Meeting our Spirit Guides and other entities with Bob Falconer

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our world is more magical than we know - more than we can know.  Increasing numbers of us are realising that the 'citadel theory of mind' where we se...

Radical Change: Building a Parallel Economy with Peter Kemp of Citizen Coin

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are living through a time between stories—where the old economic narratives of scarcity, extraction, and separation are crumbling, and a new one ...

Beyond Zero Sum: Rehumanising our Conflicts with Carm Aufderheide of NorthStar Training Solutions

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All flourishing is mutual, that's a given. And yet the schisms in our culture, the tribal divides and limbic hijack seem to grow deeper and more power...

Red Pill/Blue Pill, Green Pill/True Pill – Creating a Media Commons with Debs Grayson of Opus Independents

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our legacy - or status quo - media is owned and run by billionaires for billionaires and the stories they promote are the ones that will keep us all i...

How to Save the World - tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'If you're not changing the numbers, you're not changing the world.' So says this week's guest, Katie Patrick. Katie Patrick is a Silicon Valley based...

Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge - If the current system is not fit for purpose, what's our core response?

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Suppose we accept that the current system is not broken - it is doing what it was always designed to do - which is to shovel wealth and power from the...

Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad).  But happiness isn't enough. What we need is wellbeing, and as Dr Mark Fabian quotes ...

A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh), what tools do we have to help us shape a system that is actually fit for pur...

Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know the current system of predatory capitalism is not fit for purpose.  We don't (yet) all agree on how to fix it, but for sure, no problem i...

Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what's right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The old systems are no longer fit for purpose. What does an education system look like that's fit for the twenty-first century - where we put self car...

Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to 'Solve for Climate' - or just ignore the entire climate and e...

Authentically human: celebrating the magic of life with Mark McCartney of the 'What is a Good Life' podcast

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In these turbulent times, what values most strongly underpin our humanity and how can we nurture our relationships with all parts of ourselves, with o...

Seeing the Bigger Picture: psychedelics and sense-making with Alexander Beiner of Kainos

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do we shed the shackles of modernity and step into a new set of stories that could help us grow into the fullness of our potential? Alexander Bein...

Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a future we'd be proud to leave behind began really to...

Kin-centric Rewilding 2 - Bonus - continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel remains one of the few people I know who is originally of the Trauma Culture but is living absolutely integral to his land - and we couldn't ke...

Kin-centric Rewilding - restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

By now we know that we need to connect to the More than Human world. We know we need to grow into adulthood and elder hood. We know we need to move fr...

Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power - with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Democracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us to become - at best - obedient subjects in a world...

Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then elders, how can we help our young people to step bey...

Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda's thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earth

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are living through the death of democracy and the onset of Techno-Feudalism.  But this is not a time when linear systems can hold and feudalism wa...

HeartFood - Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin talks to the Accidental Gods podcast...

Radical Creativity: creating a Global Council of Women with Jenny Grettve of EIT Culture and Creativity

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can we bring wisdom to those with power and power to those with wisdom?  If we were to step into elder hood and bring the best of ourselves to th...

The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast is predicated on the belief that if we all work together, we can still lay the foundations for a future we'd be proud to leave as our leg...

Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang, Ambassador at Large for a safer, kinder world

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible that 2024 might have been the year of 'Peak polarisation' around the world and that from hereon in humanity might grow less divided, no...

Heart of Oak: Talking Druidry, Spirituality and the nature of Magic in the MetaCrisis with Philip Carr-Gomm

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Druidry is the indigenous spirituality of the islands of Britain, but how does is live in the contemporary world? What are the values and practices th...

Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Traditionally, we have offered a meditation for the solstice - and these are available in the links below. This meditation aims to offer a long-wide-d...

Solstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fifth year of our traditional Winter Solstice podcast gathering in which Nathalie Nahai of 'In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai, Della Dun...

Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda's favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's that time of year - when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring. ...

The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clearly we're at an inflection point in the history of humanity.  Our experiment with a notional democracy is failing and either we find something th...

Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out): Practical Routes to a whole, healed future with Dan McTiernan of Earthbound

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we become the change we need to see in the world?  What are the actual, practical steps to grounding, connecting and resonating with the world...

Adaptation is Here: Launching the TrAd (Transformative Adaptation) Book with Rupert Read and Morgan Philips

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're teetering on the brink of ecosystem and cultural collapse.  How do we adapt and transform to the changing realities?This week sees the launch o...

Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are not going back.  But how do we go forward now in a world where the old norms are under assault by people who move fast and break everything? H...

Being the Best Ancestors we can - with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we all respond to the seismic events of the US election?  Specifically, how do those of us over 50 respond? (and how would the younger generat...

Bonus: The System is Dead. Long Live the (new) System! Thoughts on the US election and the self-terminating algorithm

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It occurs to me that we are now at an inflection point in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and - notionally - Democratic) culture that h...

Turning waste into wellbeing, wildlife, food and forests: Bringing permaculture to schools with Elliot Riley

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you're over 40, the world you grew up believing in no longer exists.  The younger generation approaches the polycrisis with open eyes, striving to...

Having your C.A.K.E. (Compassion, Awareness, Knowledge, Empathy) and sharing what you learn - with Andrew Hale of Dog Centered Care

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in the world? What does it take to feel safe - as a h...

Rethink, Repair, Rebuild – with Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we achieve total systemic change? And are there politicians anywhere who are ready to make it happen (in a way that supports the continuation ...

The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases - with Cynthia Jurs, author of 'Summoned by the Earth'

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know we need to shift from our Trauma Culture to a resilient, connected Initiation Culture where we can open our heart-minds to the Web of Life, as...

Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our two guests this week are deeply embedded in the creation of Tiny Homes as a way for us meet the needs of all within the bounds of the living plane...

Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we move beyond our myopic focus on carbon/CO2 as the index of our harms to the world?  What can we do to heal the whole biosphere?  And what ...

Building an Economics of Happiness: How - and why - our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we build the local futures we all know we need?  What does it actually take to become a good enough ancestor? Or even the best ancestor we can...

Autumn Equinox meditation 2024

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long nights. For those in the Southern Hemisphere, the...

Thoughts at the Autumn Equinox 2024 - how, what, when, where and why

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is our regular September bonus episode - a brief look at where we're at - how I (Manda) see things just now as we head deeper into the moment of ...

Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My first guest after the summer break is Tim Frenneaux, whom I first met in his role as Source for the Piʌot project which is a thoroughly engaging a...

Stop killing the planet! Shaping International law so it's on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can our national and international legal systems be harnessed in service of life, to put the brakes on the worst excesses of capitalism and slow the a...

The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The climate emergency is impacting our entire eco-sphere.  Plants are at the core of every food chain but we have no idea how fast they can adapt to ...

Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

'Are we [in our WEIRD culture] intelligent enough to be more generous than we have ever been throughout history?'  So writes Jenny Grettve, in her ne...

When is a Tree not a Tree? The 'Net Zero' Wood Burning Scam - with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We live in a burning world. As we record, there are record wildfires across the Americas, record temperatures around the world, falling oxygen levels ...

A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know that being kind to our gut biome is crucial to our health, but what about the trillion happy helpers (or not) on our skin, in our lungs, our e...

Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane - with Nathan Schneider

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Western world is in a crisis of democracy - but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways we interact online and the internet is essentially ...

Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last century.  But what if our core question was: what does ...

Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clearly we need urgently to shift the democratic dial towards something that might actually serve the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible...

Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Humanity is a storied species - everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to moving house, to getting a new job… arises from the ...

The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpose and we need to take part in the birth of somethi...

How the System is Slaying Us - and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does our increasing destruction of the earth's biosphere also impact our health?  What diseases are we seeing in almost pandemic proportions and ...

Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways...

Beautiful Trouble - crafting a political Alternative - and an independent Scotland - with Indra Adnan and Pat Kane

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The question of how we reshape democracy, walking the fine line between stagnation and populist rage - is the defining problem of our time - with a co...

Election Special 3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are we being offered by the incoming Labour Government? What's good in their Manifesto (spoiler alert, not very much)? What's not good? What coul...

Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money - all in the way we make, distribute and use power...

The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell with author Richard Smyth

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest this week is Richard Smyth, author, crossword designer, cartoonist - and father of two young children Richard writes features, reviews and c...