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‘Refreshingly free from jargon, self-delusion or political partisanship, if you want to know why everything seems to be going wrong for the West, you must read this book.’
Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia
‘A hopeful and compelling case for a modern state and revitalized communities, recognizing that markets alone will not create a fair and prosperous society. Essential reading across the spectrum.’
Claire Ainsley, Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and author of The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes
‘This is an important attempt to chart a way forward for the Conservative Party by an author who has been at the heart of government. Nick Timothy seeks to do for the Conservative Party what Anthony Crosland tried to do many years ago for the Labour Party. I hope that he is more successful.’
Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, King’s College, London
‘This is an essential book for anyone interested in understanding the forces driving this age of upheaval. It is a book about political power and the power of politics to effect lasting change. And it boldly explains why liberals keep getting it wrong.’
Jason Cowley, Editor of The New Statesman
‘Nick Timothy has long been one of the most imaginative and important writers on the nature and future of conservatism. But this superb book should be read by anyone with an interest in our changing world, the political response to it, and the path forward from an era of turmoil.’
Matthew d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise Media
‘There is much in this book I don’t agree with and much I do, but there wasn’t a page I didn’t find absorbing and challenging. I find Nick Timothy one of the most interesting modern Conservative thinkers and he has written a really interesting, important book which demands to be read.’
Daniel Finkelstein, Conservative peer and Times columnist
‘Where does the anger come from? Should capitalism be tamed? Did liberal reform over-reach? Nick Timothy, reflecting in the calm after the storm of office, has produced an analysis that is essential reading, whether you’re from the right or the left, or simply a “neutral” who is trying to understand our baffling times.’
Gary Gibbon, Political Editor, Channel Four News
‘Nick Timothy is one of the few thinkers on the right who understands the dangers of untrammelled free-markets and the value of community. His ideas deserve a hearing from socialists as well as conservatives.’
Maurice Glasman, Labour peer and founder of Blue Labour
‘Nick Timothy was briefly at the centre of power under Theresa May but this book could be more influential than his time in hands-on politics. He has broken with the old political “packages” and crystallized a new centre of British politics, which combines small-c conservative common sense on many of the big social and cultural issues with a sense of economic injustice, and the failings of contemporary capitalism, borrowed from the best traditions of the centre-left.’
David Goodhart, author of The Road to Somewhere
‘Nick Timothy is Britain’s leading conservative thinker if one’s measure is a feel for real people rather than ease with arid theorizing. That this book sets out a trenchant yet sophisticated case for conservatism should come as no surprise. Nor should its stress on what is politically deliverable. But what is most striking is that it is also a serious attempt to find ways of making modern liberalism workable – and rescue it from itself.’
Paul Goodman, Editor of Conservative Home
‘Nick Timothy is a brilliant analyst of our present discontents. His insights are sharp, his writing is compelling and his arguments are powerful. He knows the problems with our politics and takes no prisoners on his quest to put them right.’
Michael Gove MP
‘Nick Timothy has given us a powerful critique of the simplistic liberal ideology that has ruled the right and the left for a generation or more. Analysing the destabilizing effects of unchecked free markets and an exclusive concern with individual freedom, he exposes the insecurities that have led to the dangerous rise of populism. Anyone who worries about the disordered state of politics today will profit from reading this hard-hitting book.’
Professor John Gray, author and philosopher
‘Nick Timothy has written a clear, timely and thought-provoking book, providing a persuasive analysis of how the liberal consensus has lost popular support. Arguing that conservatism should always be focused on how we relate to each other, he points out that its adherents cannot be relaxed about the decline of community or the current extent of inequality. His recommendations will be important for political leaders and thinkers seeking a way forward that is neither veering towards populism nor doomed to be unpopular.’
William Hague, Conservative peer and former Conservative Party Leader
‘Nick Timothy is that rare breed of politico, prophet and philosopher. After masterfully explaining what went wrong, he expertly lays out a new roadmap of how to stop the destruction of our culture and nation. To read this
