Burnham’s hard road to hope
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Before we are all engulfed by fevered speculation about the budget – what Saul Bellow called “crisis chatter” – let us draw breath and consider the idea that Andy Burnham has made the organising principle of his political offer: hope.
Don’t panic – this is not going to be an extended Thought for the Day. Quite the opposite, in fact. I want to suggest that hope has acquired an undeserved reputation as an attitude that is vague, woolly and (especially in times as perilous as these) inadequate. It
Don’t panic – this is not going to be an extended Thought for the Day. Quite the opposite, in fact. I want to suggest that hope has acquired an undeserved reputation as an attitude that is vague, woolly and (especially in times as perilous as these) inadequate. It
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