Book review: Five Rules for Rebellion, by Sophie Walker

“This is a book that explores how we can maintain energy and determination in the face of enormous barriers,” writes Sophie Walker, “and how we can adopt activism as a philosophy for life, rather than seeing it as a few pitched battles.”

That’s a promising idea for a book, not least because ‘activism as a philosophy of life’ is very much what I’m going for myself. It’s a subject Sophie Walker knows a thing or two about herself, and the book is also full of interviews with established act...