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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'An astonishing book' James O'Brien
'A gripping, devastating read' Sunday Times
The inside story of the UK's response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday Times
Failures of…
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1 author picked Failures of State as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The authors work for the Sunday Times Insight team and the book they have produced is, you might say, a public inquiry of the kind we won’t be getting from any government, now or in the future. We’ve all been living through this nightmare and the concept of journalism being a first rough history of events is more than adequately demonstrated by this excellently researched text.
Unless you’ve been asleep, or visiting another planet during the past 15 months, you’ll be painfully aware of how badly the pandemic has been handled in the UK. Coming on the back of Brexit,…
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