It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.

This book seeks to better understand the meaning and implications of the UKs calamitous encounter with the COVID-19 global pandemic for the future of British neoliberalism.Construing COVID-19 as apoliticalpandemic and mobilising a novelapplied political philosophyapproach, the authors cultivate fresh intellectual resources, both analytical and normative, to better understand why the UK failed the COVID-19 test and how it might ‘fail forward’ so as to strengthen its resilience.COVID-19 they argue, has intercepted the UK government’s decades-long experimentation with neoliberalism at what...