The world to come: A new politics of hope

The thick spike proteins of Covid-19 have latched on to poverty, inequality and racism. There has to be a better politics than this. 

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for The New Statesman

(A view of the 100th 'Rainbow Boy' artwork created by street artist Chris Shea at The Swan public house on April 21, 2020 in West Wickham. (Photo By Mark Trowbridge/Getty Images.)

‘One of the stranger symptoms of the coronavirus crisis is the hope it has engendered. Most of us wish for something other than a pandemic. A vaccine would be good; so too would a competent government. But a less modest hope has also gone viral over the past four months…’

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