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In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and 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 and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and 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 - and it is time they were challenged. Praise for Owen Jones' Chavs: "A passionate and well-documented denunciation of the upper-class contempt for the probes that has recently become so visible in the British class system". (Eric Hobsbawm, Guardian Books of 2011). "As with all the best polemics, a luminous anger backlights his prose". (Economist). "A bold attempt t

Who reads The Establishment : and How They Get Away with It?

Author

Owen Jones, Owen Peter Jones

Publisher

Allen Lane; Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846147197

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

4.18 / 5 (3,254 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14