Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World

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But as a window into his political operations, it is significant, arriving roughly a year before Khan will seek a historic third term at City Hall – the prize that has eluded all of his predecessors. The book tells the story of authors Athena Liu, a literary darling, and June Hayward, a literal nobody. Then, aged 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma – brought on by the polluted London air he had been breathing for decades.

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Predictably, he lays into former US President Donald Trump over his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris agreement.

If you have any access requirements, please sign up to our Access Scheme for discounts, wheelchair spaces, dedicated seats and free companion tickets. Then there’s The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell, which details how one of the most popular films of all time is mired in pro-slavery sentiment and helped create the myth of southern white victimhood that still shapes racial division in America today. Maxwell is a freelance journalist and this is her debut novel, focusing on motherhood in a way we rarely hear about in fiction, telling the story of a woman who has a baby alone using a sperm donor and her failure to bond instantly with her child. Motivated by the idea that if Ed Balls can do it, so could he, Khan takes up the challenge of entering the London marathon, kickstarting a chain of events spanning his reinvention as mayor (ending City Hall’s Johnsonian blue patch) and rebirth as a green evangelist.We aim to make all LSE events available as a podcast subject to receiving permission from the speaker/s to do this, and subject to no technical problems with the recording of the event. Summer is that long-awaited spell of doing nothing and everything, whether that’s lazy days of lounging in the garden, drink in hand and soaking up the sun, or weeks of meticulously scheduled activities, so as to not squander the good weather. This summer, I am reading or plan to read The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph.

He uses his own personal story of developing adult-onset asthma while training for the London Marathon, as well as the stories of many other Londoners, as a starting point to emphasise the serious and sometimes fatal consequences of a polluted environment. But to be fair, Khan admits that opposition to “green” policies was greater in 2021 than in 2016, although inevitably, he doesn’t say why. Scandalised, Sadiq underwent a political transformation that would see him become one of the most prominent global politicians fighting (and winning) elections on green issues.

A great book, sadly Goodreads seems to be becoming as full of fake troll accounts as twitter, so it’s been liked down by a lot of fake 1 star reviews, from accounts that seem to have not read the book, judging by the wild claims they make. Sadiq Khan’s first book is ostensibly structured as a self-help title in the vein of, say, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. He talks about standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Conservative leader of Uxbridge council over the 3rd runway at Heathrow. The prestigious summit, primarily attended by national leaders, aims to speed up action by governments, business, finance, local authorities and civil society, and hears from “first movers and doers” in tackling the climate emergency. His first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian.