Conundrum: Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong - and What We Can Do About it First Edition

Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope certainly aren’t short on ambition. Their new book, Conundrum, sets out to answer a problem that most people have been grappling with since the introduction of the universal franchise: Why every government gets things wrong and what we can do about it … Bacon and Hope have an easy style, and the myriad facts and figures contained within the book are used to inform, rather than bludgeon, the reader…Bacon and Hope are adept at getting to the heart of issues that are integral to the way we are governed or misgoverned but rarely form part of the day-to-day Westminster narrative…Bacon and Hope have performed a valuable public service. –Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph

Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope certainly aren’t short on ambition. Their new book, Conundrum, sets out to answer a problem that most people have been grappling with since the introduction of the universal franchise: Why every government gets things wrong and what we can do about it … Bacon and Hope have an easy style, and the myriad facts and figures contained within the book are used to inform, rather than bludgeon, the reader…Bacon and Hope are adept at getting to the heart of issues that are integral to the way we are governed or misgoverned but rarely form part of the day-to-day Westminster narrative…Bacon and Hope have performed a valuable public service. –Dan Hodges, Daily Telegraph

The book offers unique insight into the complex relationship between minsters and departments […] it has undertaken a valuable exercise in highlighting problems with past projects. –Supply Management Reviews