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Hope is in short supply right now, things aren’t working and many of us feel stuck… What’s the answer? It’s all of us.

With curiosity rather than authority, by resisting the pull towards just one strong voice and opening up meaningful debate with many perspectives, Hope is Here offers thoughtful and powerful takes on the urgent issues that worry all of us today.

Building on the immensely popular podcast, Bold Politics with Zack Polanski, Hope is Here offers a space for ideas, discussion and new ways of thinking, as some of the smartest and most engaged thinkers, speakers and writers around take a good hard look at the UK and the world around us – and then do something astonishing: they sow seeds of hope for the future.

Framed throughout by Green Party Leader Zack Polanski and with contributions from Grace Blakeley, Zoe Gardner, Mikaela Loach, George Monbiot, Jordan Stephens, Owen Jones, Dr Amir Khan, Femi Oluwole, Feargal Sharkey, Natasha Devon, Jimmy The Giant, as well as human stories from exploited workers and real-life accounts from people living and working in the camps in Calais, each chapter looks positively at the problems we face and finds new ways to explore possible solutions.

You will find yourself excited, energised and above all hopeful about our future and your place in it.

Hope is Here. It’s time to grasp it.


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