Hope is a dangerous thing – but it can be found in local activism Moya Lothian-McLean
Apr 15, 2022
3 minutes
Illustration R Fresson
past version of me described herself politically as a “pessimistic optimist”. Oxymoronic? Yes. Pretentious? Certainly. But it felt the most accurate way of characterising an outlook that was always prepared for the worst, but able to bear it because things, one day, might get “better”. Back then, I invested my hopefulness in mass political movements, believing that with the right chord-striking campaign – or even party leader – the country would
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