The marketisation of social life and the atomisation of identity have eroded the shared foundations of Western societies. Amid fragmentation and proliferating subgroups, the need emerges for a public sphere in which opposing perspectives compete without imposing a single moral orthodoxy.      Steve Latham   Daniel Rodgers’ book “Age of […]

A train journey takes the author back to the settings of his childhood in Lancashire, only to discover that time has diminished the heroic landscapes of his memory, prompting a reflection on the distance between recollection and reality.   Steve Latham   Memory plays tricks. There were no coal mines […]

The result is hybrid, something different, other; not identical to the originary cultures from the ‘homeland’, and not wholly of British either. I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who […]

Capitalism separates us from each other. Without collective myths, unifying for the common good, we will not be able to unite. Church-going is declining. Among migrant communities, it is still strong. But for the second and third generation the attractions of active religion are also less.   Steve Latham   […]