The Robin Hood legend is the first political fable we learn: a heroic outlaw steals from the rich to give to the poor. Even now, the popular language of democratic politics still evokes the notion of classes robbing each other. James Meek asks how, in a time of austerity economics, we define the robber, and the robbed?
James Meek is a novelist, journalist and the winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for his critique of privatisation, Private Island.
LRB Winter Lecture - Robin Hood in a Time of Austerity by James Meek
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London
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