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Failures of State The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus

Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott Mudlark, £20

The current success with the vaccine rollout aside, it’s hard to dispute that Britain’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been very poor. Whether it is in terms, Sunday Times journalists Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott investigate what went wrong.

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