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Go Big

How to Fix Our World

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Go Big

By: Ed Miliband
Narrated by: Ed Miliband
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Includes Bonus Chapter: 'In Conversation with Geoff Lloyd'

Good news: the solutions to our problems already exist.

Great news: a once-in-a-generation appetite for change means we can make them happen.

  •  How do we provide enough affordable housing for everyone?
  • How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?
  • How can we rebuild our broken politics? How do we tackle the climate crisis?
  • How do we really give people back control?
     

For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and interviewing brilliant people all around the world who are successfully tackling these problems, transforming communities and pioneering global movements. From a citizens' assembly in Mongolia to the UK's largest walking and cycling network in Greater Manchester, from flexible working in Finland to the campaign for the first halal Nando's in Cardiff, Go Big draws on the most imaginative and ambitious of these ideas to provide a vision for how to remake society.

The challenges we face are daunting, but in Go Big he shows that the scale of what is possible is far greater. We are at a rare moment in history when people everywhere see the need for big change. The future is not yet written. It's our job to write it.

Go Big shows us how.
 

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Critic reviews

"Enthralling. I was left with such an unusual feeling that I didn't at first realise what it was, and then I remembered: optimism. I hope everyone with the slightest interest in the way the world works will read it." (Philip Pullman)

"Inspired and inspiring, Miliband calls upon us to rise to our challenges with courageous boldness." (Christiana Figueres, lead negotiator of the UN Paris Climate Agreement)

"Go Big should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world." (Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind)

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Very good book with some good proposals for change. The anecdotes and stories of people who have already caused changes in society are very inspiring.

Inspirational book

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Well read , well thought out and thoroughly enjoyable. If you are interested in politics this should be on your reading list.

Great read

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I am literally a convert, everything seems so obvious why do we make it so difficult

Socialism as it should be sold

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Milliband is an evidence based altruist. He speaks for the people he represents and shows strategies for improving pressing world problems, from the workaday to the global demands of a Green New Deal. Stylistically I love the lack of fluff or bluster - as many words are used to say what is needed. How rare compared to aggrandising politicians' memoirs and so on.

In my top ten non-fiction books

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Ed Milliband takes inspiration from examples around the world that we can shape our world differently. Prepare to be left in no doubt that change is desireable, achieveable and collectively in our grasp. Forget party politics and the odd awkward breakfast event and see how all of us can lead the future by acting in the present. Why not buy an extra copy of the book and leave it where others can read it?

A call to step forward and make a difference

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