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In writing about Andy Ward, Ian Alister celebrated 40 years of their collaboration as a reflection of Andy’s constancy in friendship. One more book by Andy has just been published: Orderly Britain, on the resolution of everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking, co-written with Tim Newburn.
Ian referred to Andy’s more serious side as a writer, as in the oral history of the Hillsborough disaster that he assembled with Rogan Taylor and Tim, and his own painful, personal experience of losing a child to adoption. The new book provides an accessible, engaging sociology of changing orderly behaviour, asking who conforms and why.
• This article was amended on 8 August 2022, to correct Tim Newburn’s surname from Newman.
