Everyone wants change. It seems to be one of the last shared desires we have across an increasingly polarised political landscape. Yet when we turn on our televisions, open our newspapers, or enter the endless doomscroll of social media, the plea for change feels so vast that the word itself has begun to lose a unified meaning.

In a recent conversation with a friend and fellow activist, I was asked what I actually meant by ‘system change’. As I began to answer, it dawned on me that the change I was calling for might be very different from the change being demanded by someone who had stood beside ...

 

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