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Imprint: Bodley Head
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Published: 03/06/2021
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ISBN: 9781847926241
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 242mm x 36mm x 162mm
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Weight: 623g
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RRP: £18.99
GO BIG
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How To Fix Our World
'Enthralling' PHILIP PULLMAN
'Such a hopeful book' ELIZABETH DAY
'GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world' RUTGER BREGMAN
**A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021**
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 affordable housing for everyone?
- How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?
- 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.
'Miliband is clear that we live in an age where it is movements of people, not politicians, that change the world' Guardian
'Self-deprecating and relentlessly upbeat ... Miliband is right' Telegraph
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Imprint: Bodley Head
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Published: 03/06/2021
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ISBN: 9781847926241
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 242mm x 36mm x 162mm
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Weight: 623g
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RRP: £18.99
Reviews
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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
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Full of ambitious ideas about how to solve gigantic social issues such as working life, childcare and climate change ... This flawed, funny Miliband sparkles with an Alan Partridge-like flourish through Go Big ... Miliband never sounds angry. He doesn't even seem to get annoyed when the Tories steal his ideas
GQ
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At a time when our problems seem insurmountable and our disagreements intractable, Ed Miliband gives us reasons to be hopeful. This book makes a compelling case we need to hear: if we are willing to think big, politics can be a force for change and a force for good
MICHAEL J. SANDEL, author of The Tyranny of Merit
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There's a lot of good stuff in here ... flashes of insight ... neat observations ... it is hard to disagree with much of what [he says] ... charmingly self-deprecating
David Goodhart, Sunday Times
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By turns bouncy, chatty and confidential, and above all relentlessly upbeat ... 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
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Go Big is enthralling. I had forgotten that such energy and imagination were possible in a book that concerns itself with contemporary problems of politics and public life. Ed Miliband writes with a vigour and lightness of touch that doesn't conceal or deny the seriousness of the problems or the intelligence of his suggestions for solving them. 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, and act on the lines he suggests
PHILIP PULLMAN
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Engages with thinkers, often working at a local level, who propose radical solutions to a range of problems, from climate change to affordable housing
Financial Times Best Politics Books 2021
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Such a wonderful, joyous guest ... everyone must rush out and buy GO BIG ... I really did find it such a hopeful book ... [written] with great wit and intelligence
ELIZABETH DAY, host and author of How To Fail
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Self-deprecating and relentlessly upbeat ... so darned likeable ... demonstrating a boldness and clarity ... Miliband is right: we have devalued our social goods ... There's no reason why the Tories ... can't nick some of the sensible ideas in [this book] and make them their own
Telegraph
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Argues that the scale of the crises we face must define the scale of the solution ... Miliband is a listener ... and he draws inspiration wherever he can find it: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Icelandic female strikers, Paul Stephenson and the Bristol bus boycott ... [provides] the outline ... of 'a renewed social contract' ... set out with likeable energy
Observer
