Written by Molly Kingsley, Arabella Skinner and Ben Kingsley, executive members of the campaigning organisation UsForThem, this book forensically exposes how UK Ministers and senior government officials were repeatedly able to make poor quality policy decisions during the pandemic period with only limited scrutiny and too often with catastrophic consequences for the lives of millions. The authors have meticulously evidenced how ethics, good governance, truth, integrity and transparency were grossly compromised during the pandemic period, and how these factors and a deficit of accountability created the conditions for what fast became an economic, social, medical, ethical and child safeguarding disaster. Danny Kruger MP provides a powerfully candid afterword.

本書は、未曾有の危機の裏で静かに崩壊していった統治の正当性を、冷徹なまでの緻密さで暴き出した衝撃のノンフィクションです。単なる政策批判の域を越え、倫理や誠実さという社会の根幹がいかに軽視されたかを詳らかにする筆致は、重厚な社会派ドラマのような緊迫感に満ちています。 著者たちが描くのは、統計の裏に隠された子供たちの未来や個人の尊厳という血の通った真実です。透明性が失われた暗部で何が起きていたのか。その真実を追求する情熱的な文体は、読者に現代社会の脆さを突きつけ、責任の所在を問うことの重要性を強く訴えかけます。今こそ読むべき、静かなる怒りと再生への渇望を孕んだ必読の書です。