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Published in: TransformationThis is what life is like for an asylum seekerSurvival on £35 a week, the everyday boredom of waiting for a trial, and how the system needs to be humanised: a UK...
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Published in: TransformationI am sorry for you, you mean well: trust and history in the making of a better worldWhy do foreign aid and advice so often fail? A transformative social vision means nothing without humility.
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Published in: TransformationWhy don’t men care?Caregiving is neither a male nor female responsibility - it’s what helps to make us all human. It’s time we reshaped...
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Published in: TransformationSocial change in Shoprite, aisle 5Millions of Americans use supplemental food benefits each month. Along with the stigma of holding up the supermarket...
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Published in: TransformationThe Religion of the FutureHow can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that...
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Published in: TransformationUganda's 'Kill the Gays' bill: Pastor Martin Ssempa and the anti-gay lobbyYou can now be imprisoned for life under Uganda's anti-homosexual law. It was pushed through by religious pastors,...
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Published in: TransformationDemand homes not jails: queer homelessness is being criminalizedCities globally are starting to criminalize homelessness: banning begging and making free food provision illegal. I...
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Published in: TransformationBenefits Street: how austerity transformed makeover TVBenefits Street was born from coalition government rhetoric: no one should receive 'anything for nothing'. The...
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Published in: TransformationA year of living generouslyGenuine happiness involves sharing time and money, but beware of thinking that the poor belong to some other tribe....
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Published in: TransformationHow I stopped watching porn for one year and why I'm not going backI remember when I first discovered internet porn – I was 17 years old. Fascinated by this world of unleashed sexual...
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Published in: TransformationWhy we need radical love to create changeLiving on an isolated island with my dog, it was a departure to find myself with 4,000 other LGBTQ people at the...
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Published in: Transformation#Iceland3: people who take food from bins should be applauded, not arrestedThe British court case against three men who "skipped" food from Iceland supermarket has been dropped. But food...
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Published in: TransformationAloneness is central to our collective wellbeingIs spending time alone an escape from reality or a gateway to more effective social action? A walk can be...
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Published in: TransformationLiterature, empathy and the moral imaginationGreat works of literature are often love-letters to the form itself, but moral philosophy has rarely taken...
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Published in: TransformationEmpathy: lots of lessons but no final wordsWhat can we learn from two weeks of debate? Empathy must be used to correct injustice, not simply to understand it...
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Published in: TransformationEmpathy, democracy and the economyDemocracy is lost unless we re-structure our economies, and re-structuring our economies requires a new system based...
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Published in: TransformationMuriel Lester and the stench of injusticeAsserting the dignity of all people is a central moving force in the history of social change. This is the fifth...
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Published in: TransformationRoots of empathy: an interview with Mary GordonEmpathy is central to education for democracy, and it can be “caught not taught” among children in schools. This is...
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Published in: TransformationForget empathy – it’s time for radical connectionIn the struggle for social justice it’s not how much empathy we feel that makes the difference, but what we do with...
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Published in: TransformationCompassionate economicsWhat kind of economics could facilitate the liberation of all human beings? A new middle path can transform our...
