Videos
Not a highlight reel — a working collection of things that keep this mission's imagination honest. Some are historic speeches, some are jokes, a couple are deliberately provocative. None of them are Enleashed's official position on anything; each is here because it captures something worth carrying into the work — courage, self-deception, reconciliation, absurdity, or the plain satisfaction of building something.
Included for the idea of a public vow of service made before anyone can know what it will actually cost — not for any position on monarchy.
A clip from the BBC drama Industry, used pointedly: finance can be narrated like weather, or treated as a lever someone has to actually pull. This mission means to pull it — including on the banks and financial institutions whose cooperation the fix depends on.
However worn-out a system looks, it can still be rebuilt into something that works.
A real 2024 US presidential-debate claim about Springfield, Ohio, since discredited. Included as a warning, not an endorsement: rhetoric that feels true can still be false, which is exactly why evidence has to outrank storytelling.
A playful way of asking a serious question: the same technology or institution can turn out two very different ways depending on how it’s designed and who it’s built to serve.
Not an endorsement of any particular power struggle — a reminder of what badly designed systems eventually invite.
Sometimes good news breaks a rule everyone assumed was fixed. Systems that look immovable often aren’t.
The moment someone is told they have more capability than they knew. A lot of this mission’s work is trying to be that moment — for people and for institutions.
Harry and Hermione use a Time-Turner to put right what went wrong earlier, rather than patching its consequences later. Same principle, applied to broken systems.
A documentary about the Nuremberg trials — included for one historical principle, not as a comparison between any living person or institution and genocide. Holding office doesn’t exempt anyone from accountability for the decisions made inside it. Enleashed applies that principle to institutions failing the people they’re meant to serve, at whatever scale that failure actually sits — not as rhetorical shorthand for the worst crime in human history.
A catchphrase for calling out something that doesn’t add up. Don’t be afraid to ask it.
People standing motionless on a broken escalator, as if it were still moving — a well-known clip about how easily we freeze instead of adapting when a system stops working.
Homer Simpson deciding by “eenie, meenie, miny, moe” — a joke, but not always far from how big decisions get made without a real method behind them.
Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks — a fair description of policy made without a target outcome in mind.
Queen Elizabeth II’s 2011 speech at Dublin Castle — a landmark moment in British–Irish reconciliation, and a reminder that leaders can choose to lower the temperature.
Niall Breslin performing on the Late Late Show — included for the hopeful, generous vision of the country he speaks for, not as a literal political endorsement.
Niall Breslin on mental health and self-compassion — plain-spoken and useful.
Tears of the Kingdom is a story about rebuilding a broken, divided kingdom piece by piece, with whatever’s at hand. Fair description of what this mission is trying to do too.
The Weakest Link: a room votes out whoever they think is holding the group back. Blunt, sometimes unfair — but it’s what a vote looks like when nobody agrees.
Crowds are often right. They aren’t always. Good system design accounts for both.
Bob the Builder. No further explanation required.