, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page Discuss or Comment on this article - Join in the discussion and add your comment to this article's discussion page - your comments may be considered for publication in New Start Andy is a confident, cheeky Mancunian kid in his last year at primary school. He’s the sort of lad you’ll find organising playground games or playing practical jokes in class. The lifeblood of regeneration is hope. Not the wishful thinking and worn-out rhetoric of political manifestos, but hope of real changes in people’s everyday lives.