Amid a cost of living crisis, with a government cracking down on everyone from climate activists to refugees, it feels pertinent to ask whether meaningful social change is a possibility right now.
But for journalist and academic Gary Younge, whose new book ‘Dispatches from the Diaspora‘ collects work from a unique career reporting on race, racism and movements for justice, now is a moment for hope.
“We are not where we were – for better and for worse,” he says. “I think in terms of progressive ideas and notions, in a range of ways, an awful lot of political space has been created. The number of people who know what institutional racism means, or [what] systemic racism means, attitudes around LGBT issues, which is radically different to when I grew up.”
