THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERListen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future ObserverA more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell New York TimesThe Dutch wunderkind of new ideas GuardianIn Utopia for Realists Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are in fact wholly implementable. Every milestone of civilisation from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy was once considered a utopian fantasy. New utopian ideas such as universal basic income and a fifteenhour work week can become reality in our lifetime.From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty to Richard Nixons near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans Bregman takes us on a journey through history beyond the traditional leftright divides as he introduces ideas whose time has come.