Private Island

Resumen del libro

How the UK government sold itself to the highest bidder: A searing anatomy of privatized Britain by an award-winning writer

Since the age of Margaret Thatcher, successive British governments have sold off their best assets: gas, electricity, the railways networks, telecommunications, arms manufacture, are now all in the hands of foreign corporations. The fall of publically owned UK has gone on for decades, and now there's almost nothing left. In his thought-provoking, angry book, leading author James Meek looks at how this has happened and the consequences of this national firesale.