Time to resist

But this kind of thinking plays right into the hands of the ruling forces upholding the status quo. In response, writer Nathalie Olah is issuing a rallying cry. A better future is possible – and it all starts with the radical act of imagination.

I’ve considered lots of ways of opening this piece that didn’t include a clichéd mention of Thomas More’s Utopia. The word begins with More after all, and its protagonist, an island of the same name, remains inescapable as the most famous instance of an imagined, idealised society.

But More’s is also obsolete, positing slavery among several other ideas that sit