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In
the 1980s Alan Grant co-wrote a series of stories featuring Judge
Dredd set in the USA around the year 2100. Reality has swiftly overtaken
fiction and many of his made-up problems have already become part
of everyday life: the ever-increasing fascism of state police forces;
society’s inane fascination with celebrity; the empowerment
of the rich and famous at the expense of ordinary people –
in short, the crushing of the ordinary person as an agent in the
world. Can things only get worse?