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We all know the government made mistakes in its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even Boris Johnson has said, "there were many things we wish we'd done differently." But how would you feel if the mistakes related to previous shortcomings the government had been told to improve? Coronadiary: 100 days that changed our lives...and three skills government had been told to improve begins as a personal diary capturing the strangeness of the days after social distancing was introduced and the realisation that an alarmingly dangerous virus was spreading which endangered all our lives. But then in a hard-hitting commentary, the author reveals material that has not been focussed on in all the media coverage of the pandemic. Drawing on the author's knowledge of previous reports on government activity the book lays bare that the shortcomings in the government's response to COVID-19 all related to aspects of managing complex projects the government had been repeatedly told to improve. How will your view of the pandemic change from reading this book?

David Finlay has worked at senior levels in the private and public sectors. He was for ten years a Director of the National Audit Office reporting to Parliament on large government projects and for three years, 2017-20, was a member of the regional NHS Board for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.