Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics Audiobook (Free)

‘The bible for The Independent Group and several others’ Nick Robinson, Today Program

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

Britain is certainly today divided outdated against young, course against class, area against region, nativist against cosmopolitan, wealthy against poor and London against the rest. Our country is normally divided by era, by education, by place about Begin Again: How We Can Repair Our Damaged Politics and by attitude.

Politics needs to be switched off and started once again.

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

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

Too many of us have been still left politically homeless.

In Begin Again, Philip Collins, Occasions journalist and until recently a lifelong Labour voter, offers a street map to a new political destination. It really is a road map that, in recent days, continues to be adopted by many from both sides of the politics divide.

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

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