In this collection of essays, leading writers, thinkers and politicians tackle issues which are increasingly relevant to everyone in Britain, but which are rarely discussed in Westminster: poverty, deprivation, social exclusion, the potential for regeneration - the very future of our children. The essays were commissioned to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the East End voluntary organization, Community Links, but the debate they generate reaches beyond the boroughs of London. This book is a manifesto for the millennium: it is not a complaint about how bad things are, but a vision of how good things could be. Contributors include Gordon Brown, Will Hutton, Andrew O'Hagan, Bob Holman, William Boyd, Jane Tewson, Danny Silverstone, Steve Hilton, David Robinson, Stephen Jacobs, Louise France, David Grayson, Matthew Smerdon, and Will Hobson, with cartoons by Steve Bell.