Who is Government?

This book rightly focuses on the quiet heroes who represent public service at its best... Musk’s demolition derby makes this kind of journalism feel, more than ever, like a civic duty... This eye-opening, multifaceted ode to public service therefore feels both urgent and moving

Dorian Lynskey, Guardian

A vivid and important collection of essays that corrects the caricatures and shows the value of public servants... these are vivid stories, identifying unusual and low-profile work requiring great levels of commitment and expertise... these stories refute the suggestion that the only role of public services is to correct markets... public services create good, even great, outcomes for society

Paschal Donohoe, The Irish Times

As a celebration of the quiet heroism of those whose painstaking work is being laidwaste by Elon Musk’s chainsaw, it’s powerful

The FT

Praise for The Fifth Risk

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Exciting, entertaining, darkly funny

Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

Life is what happens between Michael Lewis books. I forgot to breathe while reading The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann

TLS, Books of the Year

Readable and compelling ... a horrific catalogue of all the things that can go wrong if a government takes its eye off the ball ... We should all be frightened

Brooke Masters, Financial Times

Riveting, jaw-dropping, stranger and more terrifying than fiction

Daily Telegraph

Stunning

Josh Glancy, Sunday Times

The characters are riveting, and the drama intense ... paints a picture of America being not just pulled apart at the political seams, but in the very fabric of the government itself

Harriet Alexander, Daily Telegraph