A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
Renewable energy is the elephant in the Tory and Labour rooms
Faced with an unprecedented existential threat to humanity politicians churn out platitudes while opting for inaction, agues ALAN SIMPSON
IN HER book Men in Dark Times, the philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the notion of inner emigration. What was it that stood in the way of so many prominent/influential people challenging the rise of Hitlerism or organising escape routes from it?
From the biographies she explored, Arendt concluded that many found the external realities of the time so discomforting they opted instead for “an invisibility of thinking and feeling” – living a form of inner exile; fleeing without fleeing.
Faced with the scale of today’s climate emergency we are in danger of doing the same.
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