{"id":716471,"date":"2023-05-27T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=716471"},"modified":"2023-06-06T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T04:13:08","slug":"books-to-change-the-world-dua-lipa-sadiq-khan-sebastian-barry-and-more-share-their-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/books-literature\/books-to-change-the-world-dua-lipa-sadiq-khan-sebastian-barry-and-more-share-their-picks","title":{"rendered":"Books to change the world: Dua Lipa, Sadiq Khan, Sebastian Barry and more share their picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book that has had the biggest impact on me recently is The Revenge of Power, by the former Venezuelan minister Mois&#233;s Na&#237;m. It crystallised so well a lot of the things that had been keeping me awake at night about the state of our politics, and the state of the world more generally. In particular it focuses on the three Ps that have done so much damage &#8211; populism, polarisation and post-truth. You can only begin to address problems as big as those we face if you are clear in your thinking about what those problems are, and where they come from. Read his book and you see the world more clearly. Then it is up to all of us what we do with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book that has had the biggest impact on me recently is The Revenge of Power, by the former Venezuelan minister Mois&#233;s Na&#237;m. It crystallised so well a lot of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}