In Britain is Bust, Ross Clark argues that a major rationalisation of public spending is inevitable, and likely to have profound impacts on the country's political landscape. Cuts that might seem unpopular now will soon be inescapable if we want to avoid the kind of debt crisis that afflicted Greece in 2010. Our only choice is between taking the lead on those cuts now, or being forced by the bond markets into much deeper ones in the near future.
This clear-headed, engaging and carefully argued book demonstrates that we really can't afford to carry on as we are, and offers a set of solutions to avoid the worst.
Ross Clark is a journalist who writes extensively for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. A former winner of the Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award, for many years he wrote the Thunderer column in The Times. His previous works include The Denial, a satirical novel, Far From EUtopia: Why Europe is Failing and How Britain Could Do Better and Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet). He writes the Substack Ross on Why and lives in Cambridgeshire.