Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

James Meek

261 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics informative slow-paced

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“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.” In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, ...

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