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    Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
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    Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics

    Written by Philip Collins

    Narrated by Philip Collins

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    ‘The bible for The Independent Group and many others’ Nick Robinson, Today Programme

    Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics

    Britain is today divided old against young, class against class, region against region, nativist against cosmopolitan, rich against poor and London against the rest. Our country is divided by generation, by education, by place and by attitude.

    Politics needs to be turned off and started again.

    In this time of tumult, when Britain is wrestling with the question of what sort of nation it wishes to be, its politics is stuck.

    Power is hoarded by a distant and unresponsive centre and our two largest political parties have both been captured by those on their outer edges.

    Too many of us have been left politically homeless.

    In Start Again, Philip Collins, Times journalist and until recently a lifelong Labour voter, offers a road map to a different political destination. It is a road map that, in recent days, has been taken up by many from both sides of the political divide.

    Drawing on lessons from history Collins proposes new answers to today’s most urgent questions: questions of education, work, health, housing, security, nationhood, and of how we can achieve a better future.

    Hopeful, indignant and inspirational, this is a book for anyone who feels that politics no longer speaks to them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateOct 18, 2018
    ISBN9780008312664
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    Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
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    Philip Collins

    Philip Collins is a columnist for The Times and an Associate Editor of Prospect magazine. He was Chief Speech Writer to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street between 2004 and 2007 and has subsequently written keynote speeches for a range of senior politicians, leaders of charities and NGOs and Chief Executive Officers. Mr Collins is the author of When They Go Low, We Go High, and pioneered the analysis of major speeches in The Times.

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