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First published on 18 September 2019, updated on 17 October 2026
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Can the Priceless be Priced?
NO PRICE TAG, BUT PRICELESS…
Can we price, for example, the love of parents for their newly born child? Their love and excitement when they hear their first words, mama, dada,..? Can we price our love for our children in general and their love for us? Can we price the first moment when grandparents see their grandchild, hold them, hug them and love them? Can we price love itself? Can we price friendship, comradeship, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, kindness, generosity, dignity, peace and contentment, good and goodness, worth and worthiness, beauty and wisdom, prayers, thoughts, reflections, courage, intellect, purpose, legacy,..., and such like? Can we price mother nature and our sacred earth, sunrise, sunset, blue skies, clouds, moon and stars, forests, woodlands, birds and butterflies, the morning chorus, laughter, joy, happiness, being alive, health and wellbeing and more? And finally, can we price the life itself, humanity, and what it means to be human?
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“Our age has eerily come to rhyme with Keynes’s”- Robert Skidelsky
Paraphrasing the timeless words of Maya Angelou, we need hope, optimism, and not only to survive, but to thrive with kindness, love, empathy, humour, commitment, and passion. This is the essence of Keynes, his legacy for today: "economic growth and wealth accumulation are not ends in themselves, but merely the means to secure "the good life".
…and I firmly believe that the world at large is rediscovering these timeless gems, given the rapturous applause and standing ovation we witnessed yesterday at the play: The Standard of Living, ‘the thrilling, funny and deeply moving portrait of a man who dared to imagine something better’- John Maynard Keynes, at the Royal Haymarket Theatre, London.
Yes, we can and we must, envision overcoming deep systemic challenges like neoliberal economic pressures, war, and destruction, If we listen to the Voice of Hope, echoing across the world.
N.B. For far too long, only the prophets of doom, the ‘monster dogma’ brigade, have been the ones dictating what governments can do, cruelty, austerity, privatisation, deregulation, and hopelessness, so that economic plunder and exploitation can effectively be maximised for the interest of the few.
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When we look back at the literary landscape of 1934, an extraordinary book stands out as mirror images of our contemporary world. That book, without exception, is: Crooked Cross.
'Sally Carson's 1934 novel Crooked Cross captures the terrifying, real-time collapse of a civilised society into Nazi tyranny, mirroring contemporary anxieties about how quickly democratic norms and moral consensus can dissolve.'
A lost classic, first published in 1934, about one ordinary German family destroyed by the rise of the Nazis/Persephone Books
Today, the book serves as an urgent, timeless warning about the vulnerability of civilised societies to authoritarianism.
‘The lost 1934 novel that foresaw the terrible power of Hitler’s ‘crooked cross’
‘Sally Carson’s prescient novel Crooked Cross offers an unflinching look at the early days of Nazism, resonating with today’s fears of lost boys, strong men and old hatreds’-The Times, 9 April 2025
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