By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
The dismantling of the welfare state in the UK was well under way before the Covid assault. Bunting has been researching this for five years, speaking to nurses, doctors, palliative care tea... read more
If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
As an account of concepts of freedom, this book might perhaps be placed in a History or Philosophy section. We hope you will take its inclusion under Current Affairs as a gesture of hope!