Our societies are growing more unequal, more hierarchical, meaner and less human every year. Voters appalled by the direction of current politics respond to leaders that articulate a cohesive and genuine progressivism. This book provides the framework for politicians and activists to deliver that vision, organised around the themes of cooperative solutions to social problem-solving and a social contract centred on rights and the equal dignity of all people. It argues that we should recommit to fighting for our democracy in order to manage these social differences and channel them into opportunities for social progress. Above all, this book argues for an alternative future.