How expanding public services to cover lifes essentials can transform society. The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life's essentials? In their new book the authors argue that this transformational new policy - 'Universal Basic Services' - exactly what we need to save our societies and our planet. The old argument that free markets and individual choice are the best way to solve pressing problems of poverty, inequality and environmental degredation has led us to catastrophe and must be abandoned.