Pre-order now for delivery 10-18 December 2025.
A 100-page journal of in-depth articles, long-form interviews and editorials that present both a serious challenge and inspiring alternatives to the current economic and political crisis.
After more than 10 years in print, STIR magazine transitioned into a digital quarterly magazine, accompanied by this beautiful, 100-page annual edition, showcasing the most inspiring ideas explored in each quarterly magazine across the year, along with new writing and original illustration.
The journal features articles from environmental campaigner Guy Shrubsole, historian Tehila Sasson, writer and director Pete Davis, and much more, across five themes:
Revitalising Civil Society – embedding democratic participation in our civic and political systems
Democratising Wealth – how philanthropy’s identity crisis can inspire positive efforts to ‘reimagine’ and ‘redistribute’ wealth
Supporting the Green Transition – rooting democratic, accountable, and equitable principles in the ‘green transition’
Transforming Business – beyond incremental reforms, how can we transform the underlying structure of business to maximise democratic power?
Retrieving History – what narratives and structures can be revived in our collective imagination, to rethink the roles of the state, civil society, and markets?
Membership Nation: Rebuilding Popular Democracy in the 21st Century — Jonny Gordon-Farleigh
Contemporary Communitarianism — An interview with Pete Davis
Social Clubs, Community Power, and Political Participation — Jonny Gordon-Farleigh and Oliver Holtaway
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? — An interview with Guy Shrubsole
Review: Is a River Alive? By Robert Macfarlane — Grace Crabtree
Better public ownership for a future-fit GB Energy — Rowan Mataram
The places facing life without local live music — Music Venue Trust’s Sophie Brownlee
The beginning of a new movement for English community ownership — Power to Change’s Josh Westerling
The Co-operative EOT: Embedding Co-operation in the Trust Model — David Alcock and Graeme Nuttall
B Corp – The certification that won’t save the planet — By Michael O’Regan
The Solidarity Economy — An interview with Tehila Sasson
Thinking in common? Woolf, co-operativism, and the Women’s Guild — Grace Crabtree
Survival Pending Corporate Sponsorship — An interview with Danielle Wiggins
Funding Social Justice: Meeting the moment? — The Civic Power Fund and The Hour is Late
Shoots over roots? The current limitations of community shares — By Dave Boyle
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