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GO BIG

GO BIG

How To Fix Our World

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** INCLUDES BONUS CHAPTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF LLOYD **

*A Guardian, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book to Look Out for in 2021*

'GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind

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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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'Enthralling. I was left with such an unusual feeling that I didn't at first realise what it was, and then I remembered: optimism' 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

© Ed Miliband 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

  • A new book by Mr Miliband is an important political event ... mounts a coherent challenge to orthodox views, encouraging his audience to think differently and laying the foundations of where the country needs to go ... Miliband is clear that we live in an age where it is movements of people, not politicians, that change the world
    Guardian

About the author

Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband is Shadow Secretary of State of Climate Change and Net Zero, having been Leader of the Labour Party (2010-2015) and Climate Change Secretary (2008-2010). Since 2017 Ed has captured the imagination of millions with his award-winning podcast Reasons to Be Cheerful, in which he explores the ideas, people and movements solving the challenges facing societies all around the world. In Go Big, he presents an inspiring array of real solutions to the toughest and most urgent of these problems, and argues that the key to success is to raise our sights and think big.
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