Posts and updates on the Free Range Network’s site in 2025 and 2026 (reverse chronological order).
Free Range Network, Winter Solstice/Yule 2025:
The Free Range Network has had a ‘quiet’ time of late: In part that’s due to the circumstances of some of the core members; but primarily that’s a reflection on what’s happening all around us right now.
Free Range Exhibition, Full Grain Moon 2025:
Parliament has become unrepresentative of the diversity of views in Britain. This is not a flaw or an oversight, it is by design – the result of decisions taken progressively over the last fifty years. This infographic uses elections data from the last century to show the reasons why.
Free Range Exhibition, Full Grain Moon 2025:
From the media debate it may seem obvious what ‘renewable’ energy is. When the Government describe how they are meeting their targets, however, what they’re talking about is a collection of very different sources and technologies.
Free Range Exhibition, Full Grain Moon 2025:
Allegedly, ‘what gets measured gets managed’. In Britain agencies produce statistics about energy and the environment, but the substance of those statistics are largely ignored when that conflicts with the Neoliberal ideology that dominates public life today.
Free Range Network, New Grain Moon 2025:
In the mid-2010s, in-part to support UK anti-fracking campaigns, we created an activist’s legal resource to support direct action. As the laws around public protest and dissent in Britain have changed so quickly and extensively over the last three years it became out-of-date faster than we could maintain it. This update explains why, and what happens next.
Free Range Network, New Grain Moon 2025:
The Free Range Network is a ‘dysorganization’ of activists and researchers… What does that mean? This page updates our previous exploration of how we work, and how our ‘means’ reflects the ‘ends’ we wish to achieve.
Free Range Network, New Grain Moon 2025:
The Free Range Network began work in late 1994, and was one of the early activist groups in England & Wales that supported grassroots organizing using the Internet. With our experience in the interim, today we advocate a deeply critical view of how people work collectively within the ‘fully networked world’.