ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
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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.
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK
The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
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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