Britain’s decline – and how to reverse it | with John Bew

<p>In this special edition of <em>Coffee House Shots</em>, our political editor Tim Shipman is joined by historian, biographer and foreign policy adviser to four different prime ministers, John Bew. In his 7,000-word essay published in the <em>New Statesman</em> last week, John sets out the historical context which has contributed to the malaise and decline of the British state – and hypothesises that we are currently living in the ‘fourth great disruption’ to the political and economic order. He takes Tim …