Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy. *SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights and the true cost of 'public' information. *PROPAGANDA*: spin, PR and bullshitting by numbers. The British government spent m more on advertising last year than their closest competitor, Proctor and Gamble - find out what they spent it on! *SURVEILLANCE*: discover the extent of Britain's network of databases spying on ordinary citizens, *EXPENSES*: read, for the first time, the exclusive and definitive account of Brooke's five-year campaign to have MPs' expenses revealed, which rocked the nation and transformed Britain's political landscape.

Vorwort
A modern classic of journalism and an iconic investigation of power in C21st Britain, by one of the country's leading reporters.

Autorentext

Heather Brooke



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'Brooke, author of The Silent State, did more to rid us of a corrupt, anachronistic and unjust system of governance than anyone and, if there is a hero of our troubled political times, it is her.' The Sunday Times

Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy. Silent State is a groundbreaking and important book, which should be read by anyone who wants to know how Britain really works.

'A wonderful book... Heather Brooke puts every other British journalist to shame. She has changed British public culture and earned an essential place in our national history..' - PETER OBORNE

'Passionate, eloquent and persuasive.'
Times Book of the Week

'Secrecy is one of the great British diseases. ..Heather Brooke is part of the cure - challenging the routine concealment and distortion of important information. There should be more journalists doing the same.' - NICK DAVIES

'She's a total ninja.' - BEN GOLDACRE

Titel
The Silent State
Untertitel
Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy
EAN
9781407088600
ISBN
978-1-4070-8860-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
11.01.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.72 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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