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,
“... the envy of the world,’ according to one Downing Street adviser quoted by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott in their excoriating Failures of State. Unfortunately, the reality was that the NHS had a chronic shortage of the necessary equipment and a plan that was reliant on exactly the kind of ‘just in time’ supply methods most likely to be ... ”