Braver New World

From Vienna’s pioneering social housing model and Taiwan’s highly efficient healthcare system to Finland’s education reforms and Morocco’s vast renewable energy projects, Kampfner explores how different societies are confronting problems that many countries, including Britain, continue to struggle with.

These are not perfect societies, nor simple policy prescriptions. But they offer something increasingly rare: evidence that difficult challenges can be addressed when governments, institutions and communities are willing to think differently.

In conversation with Robert Peston, Kampfner discusses the lessons from his travels, the countries showing the greatest imagination and resilience, and why the most valuable ideas often emerge from places facing the toughest constraints.

A timely and thought-provoking discussion about innovation, leadership and what a more confident future might look like.

John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster, foreign-affairs commentator and conference speaker. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow…