For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion | Kenan Malik

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat‘Is this pessimism?”, TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future. “Well, yes.” How else, he wonders, “are we meant to understand the arrival...

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‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten

Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happenedOn 20 March 2020, Rowan Brown started to f...

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