Why am I passionate about this?
Tim Madge is a well-established award-winning published author, historian and former journalist of over 45 years standing. He has written on a wide range of subjects, a cultural history of cocaine being one, resulting in White Mischief. It’s a fascinating story involving a murky mix of politics and race, as well as criminals and Sigmund Freud.
Tim's book list on wide cultural spectrum for an inquiring mind
Why did Tim love this book?
The authors work for the Sunday Times Insight team and the book they have produced is, you might say, a public inquiry of the kind we won’t be getting from any government, now or in the future. We’ve all been living through this nightmare and the concept of journalism being a first rough history of events is more than adequately demonstrated by this excellently researched text.
Unless you’ve been asleep, or visiting another planet during the past 15 months, you’ll be painfully aware of how badly the pandemic has been handled in the UK. Coming on the back of Brexit, the big event that caused the Government to never have its eye on the Coronavirus ball at the critical moments in January and February, 2020, the pandemic was at first ridiculed, then fatally downplayed by Boris Johnson.
Worse, as we all know to our personal and collective cost, was to…
1 author picked Failures of State as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'An astonishing book' James O'Brien
'A gripping, devastating read' Sunday Times
The inside story of the UK's response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday Times
Failures of State recounts the extraordinary political decisions taken at the heart of Boris Johnson's government during the global pandemic.
Fully updated and corroborated by hundreds of sources, this is the insider's account of how the government sleepwalked into disaster and tried to cover up its role in the tragedy. Thrillingly told, it exposes one of the…