Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 – Andrew Hindmoor

Haywire is the first history to tell the story of Britain and its political fortunes since the start of the Millennium.  Opening in the Dome and concluding with the combination of the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine it also tells the connected histories of the rise and fall of New Labour, of the financial crisis, of austerity, Brexit and Covid.  Andrew Hindmoor explores how crises in Britain have become connected and cumulative – one crisis has paved the way for and compounded the impact of the next. His analysis of the dramas and events of twenty-first century British political life reveals how and why we have gone haywire.   

Andrew Hindmoor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Co-Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.