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Letters – February 2026
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Organising Feeling
James Bloodworth’s thoughtful essay (‘Beyond Nostalgia: The Left Needs a Lasting Vision Our Lost Society Can Latch On To’, 11 December 2025) is right to diagnose a crisis of meaning as the heart of the problem for the pluralist left. Yet, I question whether religion is merely another “version of unreality”, grouped alongside consumerism and virtual escapism.
As I understand Christianity, it does not begin as a political programme (contra the populist right), nor as a consoling fantasy (contra New Atheism), but as a shared moral and social imagination.
Long before politics became a spectacle of feeling, Christianity organised feeling around the idea that the good life was something learned together rather than consumed alone.
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