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How to Transform Our Politics
Uniquely, this week we are discussing both a new publication and a new institution.
The publication is a book called Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again. This book examines the political thought of a group of writers and artists in mid-20th-century Britain, centred around Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, and J.B. Priestley. Their ideas, it argues, offer a vision for how to overcome the polarisation and alienation of our politics today.
The institution is the UCL Policy Lab, which was launched earlier this week, and which seeks to bring together UCL’s top…
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