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I’m a campaigner who’s interested in the connections between our inner lives and the world we create together. 

 

I’ve campaigned to shut down tax havens and stop banks fuelling corruption and ecological destruction. I launched an award-winning campaign for transparency over who owns companies, which was taken up by other organisations and changed the law in dozens of countries. I worked on the successful campaigns for an Arms Trade Treaty, and for the international ban on cluster bombs. I’ve worked for Global Witness, Amnesty International, and many other campaign groups. I’ve dug up Parliament Square in guerrilla gardening efforts, and was arrested with Extinction Rebellion. I'm involved with local democracy groups. A long time ago I trained and worked as a news reporter at The Times.  

 

My writing and public speaking are about the inner life of activism. I believe we can resource ourselves more effectively to work for change and can create better strategy if we are willing to look within at ourselves, and at the relationships between us, not just 'out there' at the problems we want to work on. I’m interested in the deep stories that have made the dominant culture the way it is, how those stories are transmitted and how we can interrupt them. In my writing I help people who want to change the world think about the psychological, spiritual and philosophical aspects of what they’re doing, what’s getting in the way, and how they can be more effective.

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My first book was The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools (Perspectiva Press, 2021), and was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021. 

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My new book How Not To Save The World: Doing Good Without Annoying Everyone will be published by Oneworld on 4th June 2026. 

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I am now posting regularly on Substack, subscribe here.

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