{ "item_title" : "The Breakdown of Britain", "item_author" : [" Daniel Finn "], "item_description" : "Hard truths from a rolling crisis: why Andy Burnham won't change Britain now Why does Britain feel permanently stuck in crisis mode? In the last decade we have seen multiple leaders fail to run the country. The economy is in stasis. The far right is on the rise. The institutions of the welfare state are barely surviving. In The Breakdown of Britain, journalist and historian Daniel Finn shows that this is not a temporary malfunction but the symptom of a deeper collapse. From the drive for Scottish independence in 2014 to Brexit, from Corbynism's rise and fall to the implosion of the Conservative Party and the demise of Keir Starmer, the political order built after Thatcher has steadily come apart. Its institutions endure, but their capacity to deliver consent or stability does not. Today, a zombified Labour Party has turned to Andy Burnham to rescue it. But Burnham will never deliver the 'circuit break' with 40 years of neoliberalism that his rhetoric promises. Meanwhile, Nigel Farage's Reform UK has dragged the political centre rightwards without even taking office. Finn argues that without facing the deeper, structural questions underlying the breakdown of British politics, things can never get better.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/80/429/557/1804295574_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "31.95", "online_price" : "31.95", "our_price" : "31.95", "club_price" : "31.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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