Ed Miliband on How To Build a Better World

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🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Is the pandemic a wake-up call to build a better world? Ed Miliband, politician and host of the award-winning Reasons to Be Cheerful podcast, thinks so. And in June 2021 he came to Intelligence Squared to discuss the ideas in his new book Go Big. Think of any problem, he will argue, and there is already a brilliant solution to it. We don’t need massive innovation. We just need to know where to look – and then have the courage to think big and scale up. People all over the world are already successfully putting into action bold ways to tackle everything from inequality and the climate crisis to the challenges of housing, technology and democratic renewal. Whether it’s implementing the Green New Deal, lowering the voting age to 16, or replacing GDP with well-being measurements, we already have the tools we need to transform the way we live and work. To buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/go-big-how-to-fix-our-world-ed-miliband/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event
0:04.8	I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing
0:10.1	politics and power from the Caesars to Sunack, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded,
0:16.0	does power always corrupt, or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while
0:21.1	an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures?
0:26.0	These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer.
0:29.6	In-person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November
0:34.6	at 7pm BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power and politics down the edges.
0:40.8	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this Friday episode of Intelligent Squared.
0:45.2	A quick reminder before we go to this week's episode, that Intelligent Squared is back
0:48.6	this autumn for in-person debates and discussions. From whether we should treat China as an
0:52.8	adversary rather than a partner, to Janice Virofakis and Jillian Tet debating whether we can fix
0:58.1	capitalism, you can buy tickets for our in-person events in London or for the live stream,
1:02.7	where we'll be streaming TV quality broadcast into your home or on your mobile device.
1:08.0	To find out more, visit IntelligentSquared.com slash attend. And now let's go to this week's
1:12.7	episode with Ed Miliband and Manvi Rana. Hello and welcome to this Intelligent Squared event
1:18.8	with Ed Miliband. He's a man who needs no introduction, which will nobodies
1:23.1	forgotten his time as leader of the Labour Party from 2010 till 2015, and before that,
1:28.3	as climate change secretary in the cabinet. In October 2017, Ed and his co-host,
1:34.4	Jeff Lloyd, launched the reasons to be cheerful podcast. Everyone's a podcaster now.
1:39.7	But his has been remarkably, I can say this with experience, he has been remarkably successful
1:44.6	with over 10 million downloads. And it was awarded podcast of the year by the Broadcasting Press
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