Is the welfare state in danger? What are the key roles of the public sector? Who depends on public services? How important are public services in holding the country together? Will the post-Brexit market provide health care, schools, police, research, flood protection, care in old age, grants to the arts, and welfare for all who need it?
Polly Toynbee is a columnist for The Guardian and David Walker is former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission. Together, they have co-authored Dogma and Disarray and Better or Worse. Now they offer us Dismembered, which takes the reader on a journey, today, into the public services, assessing its work and weighing up its importance and its cost.
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