I have just put my nomination form in to become the campaigns officer for the Green Party of East Hampshire. Why? - To support the party - To learn a new role - To improve my motivational speeches - To help the candidates - it can be a lonely journey - To practice what I preach The next elections are scheduled for May this year.

Thank you all for being here — and welcome to our 30th member. This space is still in its early days, and there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. Some of what I’m working on will start appearing in the Classroom soon. There’s already a substantial amount of material there to explore, and I genuinely welcome any feedback you’re willing to share. I’m actively learning what works and what doesn’t — both here and by being part of other communities — and I’m refining things as we go. Right now, the Classroom is unapologetically dense. It’s a wall of data. Valuable, but heavy. That’s intentional — at least at this stage. I wanted to properly understand how we got here: What was known, when it was known, and what happened after we found out. We all know that end-of-the-world messaging is a hard sell — and an even harder foundation for elections or collective action. But some of us (me included) prefer a cold dose of reality over comforting stories. I’d rather know the truth than be sold unrealistic dreams. For years, I watched documentary after documentary about nature and wildlife. They’d show collapsing ecosystems, vanishing species — and then end with a hopeful note about one valiant individual making a tiny difference. That always frustrated me. It felt… incomplete. Too small. As if the scale of the problem was being quietly minimised. Almost like being gently gaslit into optimism. So I kept asking: why is everything taking so long? What I’m finding is layer upon layer of inertia. Systems designed to preserve the status quo. Not through conspiracy — but through structure, incentives, and daily habits. I wanted to understand how that inertia actually works in practice. What slows things down. What bypasses it. What genuinely moves the needle. While working on this, global events have inevitably affected my own mood and optimism — the actions of the U.S. president, the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, the absence of meaningful leadership across much of Europe and the wider world.

I have been conducting extensive research over the Christmas period on how politics and the media operate to maintain power structures and the agendas of those in power. Writing up what I have found makes it feel nearly impossible to effect change. The systems seem so glued up, so stuck in their ways, and so immune to influence from outside forces. How can such systems be changed? But then you only need to think about the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall, Apartheid in South Africa and Brexit - the UK breaking from the European Union. All things that seemed too hard to accomplish. It seemed that it would take a revolution or some massive external force to effect change. But each was the result of growing public knowledge, mutual trust, and the collapse of the power structures at the top. One day, people realised that what humans build can be dismantled and new systems can replace it. This realisation does not entirely alleviate the grief, the desire to find a scapegoat or the guilt at my failure to act, my wish to have more agency, or desire to shout louder. Still, it does make me rally and move forward, one step at a time, towards change. I have added a module on Grief, Blame and Guilt. It is my exploration of my own state and seeking guidance on how to overcome despondency and return to action. I realised I was probably not the only one feeling this, and a discussion of the issues might be helpful for others. So here it is. In some way, I wish there was one person whom I could pin all this on -- one person - who once caught and punished would make everything okay. But that is not reality. It is not one person - it is all of us and the systems we have created. I hope you find it interesting to learn how I arrived at this. The images below make me think of my daughter and my son many years from now, considering what could have happened, if only... Climate Resilience

Over the past few weeks I’ve been quietly building something important behind the scenes. Not solutions yet — first, the map of the system we’re trying to change. There are three strands coming together: 1️⃣ How the political system actually works Not the civics-textbook version — but how decisions really get slowed, redirected, or quietly killed. Who sets the agenda. Where power bottlenecks sit. Why “doing the right thing” so often stalls. 2️⃣ How the media works — and who guides it. Why some stories dominate headlines while others disappear. How ownership, incentives, and framing shape what feels “normal,” “realistic,” or “possible.” And why confusion is not an accident. 3️⃣ The baseline system we’re operating inside. The underlying rules of the game: • how money, power, and influence interact • why inequality keeps widening • why meaningful change feels so hard, even when the evidence is overwhelming This is the terrain beneath climate, inequality, democracy, and everything else we care about. Before we talk about how to change the system, we need to be able to see it clearly. 📌 Reminder: The post on millionaires and power is already live — that’s one piece of this bigger picture, looking at how wealth concentrates influence. The next releases will connect the dots. No hype. No doom. Just clarity — so action becomes possible. More to follow.

To make an impact, people need to know you exist. To do that, you have to put yourself out here - not just out there within Skool, which feels like a friendly kind of place - but out there in the wider world. So these last two weeks have been about writing scripts, recording videos, making thumbnails and uploading files to YouTube. Here is the link to the first one! The plan is to post one a week for the next 12 weeks. Since they are all already created, it is simply about posting them. Tomorrow, they will all be uploaded to YouTube and scheduled for release.