How They Broke Britain

· Virgin Digital · Narrated by James O'Brien
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‘Made me so angry I had to stop listening to it while driving. Superb’ THE SECRET BARRISTER

Something has gone really wrong in Britain.

Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?

Bold and incisive as ever, James O'Brien reveals the shady network of influence that has created a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals. He maps the web connecting dark think tanks to Downing Street, the journalists complicit in selling it to the public and the media bosses pushing their own agendas. Over ten chapters, each focusing on a particular person complicit in the downfall, James O'Brien reveals how a select few have conspired - sometimes by incompetence, sometimes by design - to bring Britain to its knees.

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4.9
19 reviews
Pete Marchetto
January 24, 2024
It's been depressing watching the UK's decline through Thatcher's sincere but naive belief in neoliberalism, it's devolution into crony capitalism and scapegoatery to keep the gravy train on the rails, and this final descent into the populist gutter for five more miles of track and more millions offshored for the already rich. Mugs and bigots conned in elections with the connivance of media outlets' propagandistic pandering to prejudice is well covered. Nothing new here, just what's ignored.
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Jim Cameron
July 18, 2024
superb captures perfectly the way we the British Public have been riden over rough shod by the so called elite and the ruling class - can we bring back one Guido Fox and give him another go please?
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Stephen H
December 5, 2023
You may, of course, contest that these people all harmed the country but this book is still worth having. The labyrinth of privilege and dark money that frames the British political discussion is forensically documented by James.
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About the author

James O'Brien is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror. His daily current affairs programme on LBC is the most popular talk show on commercial radio with over 1.4 million weekly listeners and his first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Political Book by a non-politician. He is often to be found on Twitter trying not to get into arguments unless absolutely necessary.

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