One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the
lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in Britain
The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase
much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically?
And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate Covid
crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides
post-war British history into BC (before covid) and AC (after
covid). He looks back to Sir William Beveridge's classic
identification of the 'five giants' against which society had to
battle - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness - and laid
the foundations for the modern welfare state in his wartime report.
He examines the steady assault on the giants by successive post-war
governments and asks what the comparable giants are now. He lays
out the 'road to 2045' with 'a new Beveridge' to build a consensus
for post-covid Britain with the ambition and on the scale that was
achieved by the first.
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