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Brexit Warning  (Brexit Values Story 2.2)             (long blog – download as a pdf here) Brexit is causing a crisis in British politics but the values split which it revealed could affect many other countries, particularly post-industrial democracies.  Those countries experienced … Continue reading →

download as a pdf The main British political parties, Labour and Conservative, are large ‘broad-church’, ‘catch-all’, or ‘big tent’ parties.  They are now experiencing their first splintering based more on values cleavages than political ideology.  At the time of writing, … Continue reading →

What do you do about a mass extinction if you are an environmental campaigner, conservation group like WWF, or a politician, or a concerned human being?  I’m not talking about a warning or a threat but an outcome: it’s happening, … Continue reading →

Rejection of ‘Political Correctness’ played a role in the vote for Brexit and Trump in 2016 but what does it mean for campaigners and ‘progressives’ who are often perceived as standard-bearers for ‘PC’? Commentators argue over what Political Correctness is … Continue reading →

This presentation was first given at a Bristol ‘Communicate/ Thinking Beyond Plastic’ Conference in June 2018. It summarizes the development of the “plastics issue” and argues that the relevant ie effective and evidence-based framing is of plastic as a pollutant, … Continue reading →

A burgeoning new industry, ‘Ligno-Cellulosics’, has the potential to be for plastics made from oil, what renewable-energy technologies have been to fossil fuels in the field of climate change.  But that potential may yet get diverted or co-opted.  And are … Continue reading →

(This post first appeared at the blog ‘Celebrating Peter‘ where many other contributions can also be found). Chris Rose Peter on a walk round his farm in April this year.  Behind him is a field full of cowslips, part of … Continue reading →

Here’s one for students of values.  ‘Self-agency’, the sense that you can change the world rather than it limiting or changing you, increases as, and if, people ‘transition’ through the sequence of Values Modes.  As a result, any campaign ask … Continue reading →

Chris Rose  chris@campaignstrategy.co.uk Long blog – download it as a pdf here In what should be a game-changer for climate campaigning, the divide between ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ has been closed, as German scientist Friederike Otto and colleagues have succeeded in … Continue reading →

Shop containing a Genius Bar – this wasn’t the one (This story is four years old.  I just never got round to publishing it but it’s a Friday). A few nights ago I was working at my PC when my … Continue reading →