https://livesteven.com/2026/07/07/lets-assume-that-who-we-are-can-release-an-agency-that-shapes-us-beyond-who-we-are-and-were-into-some-refined-or-reconfigured-version-of-that-self-in-the-near-or-distant-future-however-it/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-07T12:08:21+00:00Let’s assume that ‘who we are’ can release an agency that shapes us beyond ‘who we are and were’ into some refined or reconfigured version of that self in the near or distant future. However, it can only do this by its response to experience. Do novelists deal with the kind of problem any more?dailyprompt, literature, books, reading, fiction, dailyprompt-2824, elizabeth-strout, the-things-we-never-say, george-eliots-middlemarch-the-literary-traditionhttps://livesteven.com/2026/07/06/this-blog-reflects-on-why-i-enjoyed-geoff-andrews-2026-book-radicals-the-working-classes-and-the-making-of-modern-britain-and-why-perhaps-it-is-a-as-deeply-flawed-a-book-as-my-enjoymen/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-07-06T13:47:27+00:00This blog reflects on why I enjoyed Geoff Andrews’ 2026 book ‘Radicals: The Working Classes and The Making of Modern Britain’, and why, perhaps it is a as deeply flawed a book as my enjoyment of it.books, book-review, politics, history, marxism, labour-politics, radicals-the-working-classes-and-the-making-of-modern-britain, geoff-andrews