ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Collective action required
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.
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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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