GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

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Femi’s exuberant words and talent saw him named as the first Young People’s Laureate for London in 2016, following his 2015 win at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam.

All of his suggestions are backed with evidence, showing that success has followed where these ideas have been tried. He and his shadow chancellor Ed Balls went into the 2015 general election promising not to reverse any of the Tories’ cuts.

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. This study maps the ideas - old and new - that were debated and adopted by the Labour Party under Miliband and shows how they were transformed into policy proposals and adapted to contemporary circumstances. I hadn’t listened to the podcast but have always admired Miliband and thought he was roughly treated as Labour leader.

And will he manage to bury the hatchet with David and bring his brother back to the Labour frontbench? Answer that question, and it shall instantly become clear why we will never have a citizens’ assembly to consider that issue. I don’t mean to be rude towards people who have done them, but they tend to be quite backwards-looking don't they? fully of ideas, nifty schemes for solving the climate crisis, sound stratagems for encouraging more and better housing, for revitalising public transport, for loosening the stranglehold of the market and a whole lot more besides - Private Eye You may also be interested in. It's a ready-made policy agenda for a future Prime Minister, setting out how to help reduce the UK's staggering income inequality, improve health, get our carbon emissions down, create good jobs and get people involved in political decision-making.As leader of the Labour party he was derided for a lack passion and convection , but that was unfair.

He notes that this view implies “ that bosses are constantly trying to maximise profits and do down the workers”. All in all, this was a worthwhile read and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn about some of the more novel concepts in politics and the community.

Sadly the warm embrace of Miliband by sections of the Corbyn movement was not the generosity shown to a prodigal son, but a dangerous meeting of minds in a soup of political confusion. It charts his unique upbringing, against the backdrop of tragedy and with a prominent Marxist thinker for a father. For instance, public polls regularly show that a majority of UK voters are in favour of sweeping public ownership to a level not seen since the 1970s.

This has been particularly noticeable among the Corbynite left, where Miliband underwent a rehabilitation of sorts, being welcomed into the left’s efforts to build support for a Green New Deal – or the related but not identical “Green Industrial Revolution”. If the politics of the past five years, or the past 50 years, has taught us anything, it might perhaps be that the wisdom of Dr Pangloss only gets you so far. Miliband is a listener where Brown is a preacher, and he draws inspiration from wherever he can find it: Franklin Roosevelt, Icelandic female strikers, Paul Stephenson and the Bristol bus boycott.How on earth are we meant to undertake the urgent task of reconfiguring and decarbonising the economy if 90% of it is to remain outside our control? This failure is one of the several reasons why 'Milibandism' was so overwhelmingly rejected by voters at the 2015 general election. Today, it enjoys one of the highest standards of living on the continent, thanks in large part to the decision taken to invest its oil money in a huge sovereign wealth fund. It seeks to demonstrate that the Labour Party under Miliband tried but failed to renew social democracy. It has given him a platform to reveal the warm and witty human behind the policy nerd, and this book continues in the same tone, with a self-deprecating smile behind much of the prose.