Shaping The New Normal

Rethink: Leading Voices On Life After Crisis And How We Can Make A Better World Amol Rajan (editor) BBC Books, £16.99

- Huston Gilmore

Will Covid-19 prove to be a global ‘reset’ moment? That’s the hope that runs through Rethink, a star-studded collection of 65 short essays edited by Amol Rajan.

He says that “we are living through one of history’s epoch shifts” in which ecological devastation, a technological revolution, and a shift in global power towards China and the East are rapidly transforming societies across the globe.

So how can we build back better from the pandemic and tackle the biggest problems we face at the same time? An impressive list of contributors share their ideas.