THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER' Fantastic timely eye-opening' Armando Iannucci New Statesman Books of the Year' Captures a collective sense of anger & awakening' Matt Haig Observer Books of the Year Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power & reap huge profits in the process In exposing this shadowy & complex system that dominates our lives Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms boardrooms & trading rooms of Fleet Street & the City Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds & the vested interests that bind them together Jones shows how in claiming to work on our behalf the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite In fact they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today
- & it is time they were challenged'A book of revelations The Establishment have stitched it up
- stitched you up
- & they know it' Danny Dorling Times Higher Education Supplement'A dissection of the profoundly & sickeningly corrupt state that is present-day Britain He is a fine writer & this is a truly necessary book' Philip Pullman' Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times' David Kynaston The Times Literary Supplement ' You will be enlightened & angry' Irvine Welsh