| Naomi Glass & Clare Joy | OrganicLea stands out as an inspiring urban food project that grows everything: food and communities.  While many sustainable and food-focused programs are limited by the fact they only have volunteer staff, Organic Lea’s vision to create jobs provides a...

| Marianne Maeckelbergh | The year 2011 has breathed new life into horizontal models of democratic decision-making. With the rise of the 15 May movement and the occupy movement horizontal decision-making became one of the key political structures for organising responses to the current global...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh | With the publication of his new book The Faith of the Faithless, I spoke to philosopher Simon Critchley about why a counterfactual faith is so important to modern politics, why it offers an “archive of possibilities” for those involved in political...

| Sam Bailey | As Gabriel Kuhn so eloquently articulated in the last issue of STIR, football is more than just a competitive sport, and if we look beyond the multi-billion-pound football ‘industry’, with its widespread corruption, celebrity players, excessive consumption and clubs run as...

| Glyn Moody | January 18, 2012 may well go down as a pivotal date in the history of the Internet – and of copyright.  For on that day, the English-language Wikipedia and thousands of other websites were blacked out or modified to protest against two bills passing through the US legislative...