DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney
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JOHN GREEN recommends introductory reading for those interested in understanding the existential issues
Extinction Rebellion stage a mass occupation in Windsor Great Park. Activists are calling for the Government to create and be led by a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice, August 30, 2024.
STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe
JAMES WALSH takes advantage of an evening of comedy snippets to pick out which clowns will make it in Edinburgh
MAYER WAKEFIELD is swept up by the tale of the south London venue where music forged alliances across race, class and identity
MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
The Insecurity Trap – A Short Guide to Transformation
By Paul Rogers with Judith Large, Hawthorn Press, £11.99
IN this slim volume, Paul Rogers offers a succinct summary of the chief crises threatening our world today: a rapidly approaching climate catastrophe, a severe decline in UN legitimacy and global multilateral co-operation, with an increasing resort to armed response rather than diplomacy. Together, this is leading to widespread social breakdown and despair.
The author argues, though, that to give way to despair in the face of such seemingly intractable problems would be to admit defeat. There are, he argues, effective ways in which we as individuals can respond and fight to change the trajectory of our world.
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