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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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The most important question of our time: Are we witnessing the rise of fascism again?
The demise of kindness and empathy, the return of cruelty and fascism are the clear signs of the triumph of selective amnesia
‘The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense.’- Ros Taylor, formerly at the Guardian, London School of Economics and the BBC
A painting that fought fascism, speaking out against brutality and cruelty
Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso (Credit: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía)
Does the moral vow of 'never again' still hold true, or is history now showing that its application is deeply compromised and selective on matters of atrocities, wars, genocides, and massacres?
The world of politics and political leadership today, once again is: A world devoid of humanity, dignity, empathy, trust, kindness, spirituality, meaning, purpose, morals, and manners.
In a recently published book, ‘The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It’ (2025), Alec Ryrie, writes, “the most potent moral figure in western society was Jesus Christ. Now it is Adolf Hitler.”
In this sense, 'What happens when we forget Hitler?' asks Matthew d'Ancona, editor-at-large of The New European/The New World
...'the age of Hitler began not in 1933, when he was appointed chancellor of Germany, but in 1945, when the world united around the principle that the horrors he had unleashed must never be allowed to happen again.’
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