500 years on, have we learned from Utopia?

By Desmond Manderson
Updated April 2 2017 - 9:48am, first published March 21 2017 - 3:26pm

In 1516, Thomas More was at the top of his game. He was widely recognised as one of the great intellectuals of Europe; a key adviser to princes and prelates, and an esteemed colleague of the greatest thinkers of the age. That summer, while he was pondering the implications of taking on heavier responsibilities at the court of Henry VIII - a decision that eventually cost him his life - he visited his old friend Erasmus, and he wrote a little book.

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