Inflation, waiting lists, strikes, rail chaos, climate emergency: the 2022 polycrisis

Almost every facet of life in the UK - courts to cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to asylum system - is at breaking point

In mid-November Rishi Sunak was asked in a Channel 4 interview to name one public service that was working, adequately, working properly".

The prime minister didn't give a direct answer. But the exchange feeds into an ever-more-common discourse: that the UK is facing polycrisis" in almost every facet of life in Britain. From courts to the cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to the asylum system - everywhere appears to be affected.