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From What If to What Next

Sep 1, 2026

Imandeep Kaur, or Immy to her friends, is the Director and Co-Founder of Civic Square in Birmingham, their Director of Mission and Strategy. She is, to put it simply, one of the most inspiring people I have ever met, and to me she is one of the great guardians of the collective radical imagination.

Together with many...


Jul 1, 2026

This month's episode is a conversation with producer Jordan Flaherty about the incredible new Afrofuturist film 'Space to Breathe', of which the promotional material states "Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, framed with a future where there are no prisons or police.

The year is 2070...


May 1, 2026

Kate Pickett was co-author of the seminal 'The Spirit Level', and she just published her new book 'The Good Society: and how we make it'.

'The Good Society' is an utterly brilliant and compelling vision of what a more equal future fundamentally rooted in care would look like. I can't recommend it highly enough. It draws...


Apr 1, 2026

The second (Episode 102) of my rejuvenated and back-in-your-life podcast, ‘From What If to What Next’ features my conversation with the fabulous Solitaire Townsend.

Following 2025’s New York Climate Week online, the key thing that caught my attention was Solitaire standing up and boldly stating ‘Fuck Doom’....


Mar 1, 2026

It's deeply exciting to be able to present your first new episode of 'From What If to What Next' in almost 2 years. As the months have gone past, I've had a sense that there was more still to do, more conversations to be had. From the research I did for 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' and since, I've come...