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Who Runs This Place? - The Anatomy of Britain Revisited (Hardcover)
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Forty years ago Anthony Sampson wrote his indispensable best-seller
The Anatomy of Britain. Now he has felt drawn back to the task by
exasperation with the lack of democracy and accountability in
Blair's Britain. How has power become so concentrated in so few
hands? Whatever happened to all those alternative centres - like
parliament, the monarchy, the regions or the cabinet? Why are
company directors, lawyers or accountants so unanswerable to the
people they represent? Sampson follows 'the will o' the wisp of
power' through each profession vividly describing the new people at
the top: corporate chiefs in place of hereditary landowners,
Islington media couples in place of Kensington toffs. He finds
still more power concentrating on Downing Street, which has never
been more distant from parliament - or closer to big business.
After four decades of power-watching Sampson is now more impatient
with the abuses. But he is hopeful that the British people will
finally reassert their democratic rights, whether as voters or
shareholders. This new Anatomy provides an insider's tour, with
exceptional sources; but it is on the side of the outsider, written
for ordinary citizens who want to kno
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