Columns / What If

What if we banned the intensive farming of animals? Hazel Healy imagines a world without cheap meat, eggs and dairy.

What if we got real about sustainability? It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.

What if we dealt with our own rubbish instead of sending it abroad, Vanessa Baird suggests.

We abolished landlords? fantasizes Amy Hall.

Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

We had binding quotas for women in politics? Vanessa Baird looks at what gender parity can do.

We got our attention back?

A socialist became president of the USA? Richard Swift ponders a pipedream – or a possibility.

Vanessa Baird on how to turn a toxic bane into a liberating blessing.

Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?

Aidan Harper makes the case for a new politics of time.

Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone on how to do it.

...we scrapped the gender binary on official documents? Vanessa Baird suggests a world beyond M or F.

Hazel Healy sketches out a radical scenario.

Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

Vanessa Baird looks ahead at how things could be.