This title presents a though-provoking and engaging search for the true sources of power in Britain today. Paxman examines the pillars of the Establishment - their origin, influence and future. An unbiased journey down the corridors of power, "Friends in High Places" provides an incisive and insightful view of who really runs Britain.
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Jeremy Paxman is a journalist, best-known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge. His books include THE ENGLISH and IT ALWAYS ENDS IN TEARS. He lives in Oxfordshire.
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This afternoon I took the tube to Richmond, and thence a bus to Petersham. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Continuing the fine tradition of of socio-political analysis typified by Anthony Sampson's books on "The Anatomy of Britain" Jeremy Paxman presents an excellent, well-researched and enjoyably written study of the ruling elite on Britain in the 1990s.
Drawing on his own experience as a journalist and broadcaster for the BBC (itself, he argues, a pillar of the old boy network) Mr Paxman draws our attention to the fact that in the supposedly meritocratic Britain of Major and Blair the 'Establishment' is alive and well and as powerful as ever.
Fascinating, sobering reading.
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A handy chapter-by-chapter guide to the main groupings - politicians, civil servants, academics, the great and the good and so on - who formed the ruling elite at the time.
While the Blair years have made an awful lot of changes to that traditional old-boy-network cast of British public life, this 1990 study is still well worth reading - the changes are more obvious when one knows where we were fifteen years ago.
Very rare of its type: one of the secrets of the system is that if you're on the inside you're expected to know how it works. If you're on the outside, you won't know (and vice versa). As such, much credit to Paxman for lifting the lid. And the fact that it's still in print after so long is a testament to its worth.
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A very detailed and enlightening piece of work that opens the doors to who really (or is most likely) to run the country. Definately worth reading. I suspect however that circumstances have changed somewhat in the ten years that have passed since the book was written. Perhaps not as much as we might hope though.
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Very well researched
Difficult subject to tackle without resorting to speculation and fancy conspiracy theories.
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