Book HackFailures of StateBy Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott
In a Nutshell
Sunday Times reporters Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott provide a journalistic investigation into what went wrong in the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Favorite Quote
Just as we want to reduce COVID-19 infections to save lives, so reducing them is the key to saving the economy … would we flock to the January sales if the doors to our hospitals were shut?
Michael Gove, senior Conservative government minister
Introduction
In December 2020, Britain was given the flattering moniker of 'Plague Island' by the New York Times.
After emerging from its first COVID-19 wave with the highest death toll in Europe, Britain's government faced some hard questions. Failures of State is an attempt at answering them.
Published in March 2021, Failures of State is co-written by two journalists from The Times and The Sunday Times who wrote a slew of 2020 articles about the British government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic under Boris Johnson.
George Arbuthnott and Jonathan Calvert's April 2020 article, 'Coronavirus: 38 Days when Britain Sleepwalked into Disaster,' became The Times' most-read online article ever.
In Failures of State, Calvert and Arbuthnott offer a blow-by-blow retelling, with analysis, of the British government's COVID-19 responses throughout 2020.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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