A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR''Insightful and revealing: a brilliant exploration of how ideas currently on the edge of politics could move into the mainstream'' Danny Dorling, author of SLOWDOWNAn ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how we can get thereCan we reverse the mental health crisis by getting rid of Mondays?Is it time to stop poor people being poor by..giving them money?Can we quell the fires of populism by giving young people a say in the future?As the shockwaves of Covid 19 continue to spread, and as the smoke clears from a year of anger and unrest, many people feel forlorn about the future.In End State, James Plunkett argues that this can be a moment not of despair, but of historic opportunity - a chance to rethink, renew, and reform some of the most fundamental ways we organise societyIn much the same way as societies emerged stronger from crises in the past - building the state as we know it toda