As the Lock Rattles
John Lanchester, 16 December 2021
Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
by Rachel Clarke.
Abacus, 228 pp., £9.99, September 2021,978 0 349 14456 6 Show More
by Rachel Clarke.
Abacus, 228 pp., £9.99, September 2021,
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy
by Adam Tooze.
Allen Lane, 354 pp., £25, September 2021,978 0 241 48587 3 Show More
by Adam Tooze.
Allen Lane, 354 pp., £25, September 2021,
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus
by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott.
Mudlark, 432 pp., £20, March 2021,978 0 00 843052 8 Show More
by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott.
Mudlark, 432 pp., £20, March 2021,
Covid by Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.
Pelican, 320 pp., £10.99, October 2021,978 0 241 54773 1 Show More
by David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.
Pelican, 320 pp., £10.99, October 2021,
The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality
by Toby Green.
Hurst, 294 pp., £14.99, April 2021,978 1 78738 522 1 Show More
by Toby Green.
Hurst, 294 pp., £14.99, April 2021,
“... West who have no visceral understanding of the risks posed by infectious illness. In addition, as David Runciman has pointed out, politicians and government don’t get credit for the disasters and failures they prevent. The combination of these two factors – generational obliviousness and the bias away from the good governance of prevention – goes a long ... ”
