Although it was written 130 years ago, William Morris’s essay on how we live and how we might live could equally have been written this year as an introduction to the Labour Party manifesto. The values to which Morris aspires are precisely those to which today’s Labour party aspires. The enormous public support for our manifesto and for our socialist leadership echo Morris’s yearnings for a truly egalitarian society based on social solidarity and valuing diversity and culture. The way in which Morris describes his idea of health carries the same ‘face validity’ as does the World Health Organisation’s famous […]
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