Books are essential because — and yes, it seems now I dare to say it — they give us hope. But, more precisely, they give us the energy to seek new and better ways to understand, or to recognise. To search beyond slogans for the concrete. For our recognition to be more profound, and our Act Three to be filled with more effective fighting.

To discuss season two of Disney’s Andor without discussing the genocide in Gaza would be both morally and intellectually disingenuous, and cowardly in a way that stains. Tony Gilroy knows this, despite his press-tour pussyfooting. Disney more than knows this, and I’m sure they’ve been rehearsing their response to the incoming discourse for months, if not since Gilroy first handed in the scripts.