MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
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SYLVIA HIKINS is uplifted by a firm defence of extra-parliamentary opposition
STATE v THE PEOPLE: Police intervention during a protest against oil and gas production outside the Department for Business on April 13 2022
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Another World is Possible
by Geoff Mulgan
(Hurst, £17.56)
GEOFF MULGAN, UCL professor, former director of the strategy unit at 10 Downing Street, (1997-2004) draws on the arts, social sciences, philosophy and history to confront today’s world where so many of us desperately want transformational social change, yet are resigned to fatalism.
Powerful interests, he argues, deliberately resist, confuse, disrupt any trends they find threatening.
In order to bring about change, Mulgan urges us to find new ways of seeing that will prompt new ways of doing, and by using our creative imagination, a wider range of options open up.
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