What do Christopher Wren, William Beveridge and Jean Monnet have in common? The architect of St Paul’s, the inspiration for Britain’s welfare state and a French official who launched postwar European integration would seem to share little. Yet what unites them provides a vital lesson for today: in the middle of turmoil, Wren, Beveridge and Monnet all had the courage to dream of an entirely new way of doing things.
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