TOO OFTEN, the environment fails to elicit the same emotional pull as global peace, global security and the relief of global poverty. The political romance of the Make Poverty History campaign has gone beyond the mechanical, striking a chord in the hearts and minds of people in a way that environmental discussions have not. The poet Florence Earl Coates once remarked, “There is always room for beauty.” Politics cannot evade this thought: in politics, as in the rest of life, there must be room for beauty. We need, in short, to conduct politics as if beauty matters.
British politics has been somewhat ...
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