Start Again

By The Times columnist and acclaimed author of When They Go Low, We Go High. 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 divided today class against class, region against region, nativist against cosmopolitan, old against young, 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.At a time when Britain is wrestling with the question of what sort of nation it wishes to be, our politics is stuck. Our archaic constitution is cracking. 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. A large tract of political ground lies unoccupied and too many of us have become politically homeless.Start Again offers a road map to a different political future. Hopeful, indignant and inspirational it is a book for anyone who feels that politics no longer speaks to them.Tracing the fault lines in our current, fractured political landscape it proposes new answers to the urgent questions facing us today – questions of education, of work, of health, of housing, of security, of inequality, and above all of how we can achieve a better future.Start Again shows us how to mend the broken promises of British politics.