<p><b>'Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids for our unhinged times' – Emily Maitlis<br>'Fantastic. Excellent. Exquisite' – The Secret Barrister</b><br><br><b>Why does nothing work in Britain?</b><br><br>It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. Rivers are overrun with sewage. Real wages have been stagnant for years, even as the cost of housing rises inexorably. Why is everything going wrong at the same time?<br><br>It's easy to point the finger at dysfunctional or even corrupt politicians. But in reality it’s more complicated. Politicians can make things better or worse, but all work within our state institutions. And ours are broken.<br><br>In <i>Failed State</i>, Sam Freedman, one of Britain's leading policy experts, offers a devastating analysis of where we’ve gone wron
