The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

For now, the idea of nuance is dead. That’s a definitive take. So to speak.

There is little room for knowledge allowing a sliver of empathy or any sense of seeing it from the other side.

To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, you’re either with us or against us. And now, you may think, well look at him, he’s quoting Thatcher, badly, and so that

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