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GO BIG: How To Fix Our World

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At a time when our problems seem insurmountable and our disagreements intractable, Ed Miliband gives us reasons to be hopeful. 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.

Answer that question, and it shall instantly become clear why we will never have a citizens’ assembly to consider that issue. Maybe they’ve all been listening to his Reasons to Be Cheerful podcasts – and now they can riffle through Go Big and nick Miliband’s ideas on “how to fix our world”. I think you can have an instinct that you want to live in a more equal society, but this book gave me more evidence why this should be the case. Should be of interest to those across the political spectrum interested in how the future can be shaped to deal with big social, economic and environmental challenges. Mr Miliband mounts a coherent challenge to orthodox views, encouraging his audience to think differently and laying the foundations of where the country needs to go.Presenting anecdotes of when people went big and by doing so shifted the Overton window and were met with compelling societal change.

There’s a lot that needs fixing, and the darkness and dislocation of the past 16 months has thrown it into sharp relief. This all sounds lovely until one asks the most basic question, the question which should have been asked first: where is the money coming from? For a programme of social democratic public spending to be based on such a fund necessarily entails a pact between Norwegian workers and the Norwegian capitalist state. Yet at every turn Miliband is keen to stress that he is not writing an alternative Labour manifesto, but simply contributing helpful ideas. Full of ambitious ideas about how to solve gigantic social issues such as working life, childcare and climate change .

This makes it all the more important to engage when figures such as Miliband produce books and other substantial works rather than TV soundbites; it allows us to think about what they’re saying and whether or not we agree. The kind of professor who truly cares whether everyone understands what he means, and also the kind of person who sees how people can be misled. Many in Labour think that the route to electoral success lies in smaller, more incremental offers to voters. But markets are not forces of nature like the sea, to be kept at bay with simple interventions like flood defence barriers.

But to cast this as one individual’s attempt to launder his own reputation would be both fruitless and would miss the wider point. There’s all sort of characters in Boo Boo and Hee Hee, including a magician who is rather useless and spends all his time watching cricket. Ed Miliband has captured imaginations with his award-winning hit podcast Reasons to be Cheerful, which discovers brilliant people all around the world who are successfully fixing problems, transforming communities and pioneering global movements. If you fall under the latter you’d probably label him as a man who backstabbed his brother and was certain to give us “chaos with Ed Miliband“. Cooperatives are of course not a solution to the problem of exploitation in general – not that Miliband is looking for such a solution.He and his shadow chancellor Ed Balls went into the 2015 general election promising not to reverse any of the Tories’ cuts. Twenty transformative solutions, inspired by the Reasons to be Cheerful podcastThink of any problem that we face and there is already a solution out there.

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