Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
    The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
    The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It

    Written by Owen Jones

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    'Fantastic, timely, eye-opening' Armando Iannucci, New Statesman, Books of the Year

    'Captures a collective sense of anger and awakening' Matt Haig, Observer, Books of the Year

    Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged.

    'A book of revelations ... The Establishment have stitched it up - stitched you up - and they know it' Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education Supplement

    'A dissection of the profoundly and sickeningly corrupt state that is present-day Britain. He is a fine writer, and this is a truly necessary book' Philip Pullman

    'Owen Jones is a phenomenon of our times' David Kynaston, The Times Literary Supplement

    'You will be enlightened and angry' Irvine Welsh
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateDec 4, 2014
    ISBN9781471283352
    The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
    Author

    Owen Jones

    Author Owen Jones, from Barry, South Wales, came to writing novels relatively recently, although he has been writing all his adult life. He has lived and worked in several countries and travelled in many, many more. He speaks, or has spoken, seven languages fluently and is currently learning Thai, since he lived in Thailand with his Thai wife of ten years. "It has never taken me long to learn a language," he says, "but Thai bears no relationship to any other language I have ever studied before." When asked about his style of writing, he said, "I'm a Celt, and we are Romantic. I believe in reincarnation and lots more besides in that vein. Those beliefs, like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around', Fate and Karma are central to my life, so they are reflected in my work'. His first novel, 'Daddy's Hobby' from the series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya' has become the classic novel on Pattaya bar girls and has been followed by six sequels. However, his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a young teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. After fifteen years of travelling, Owen and his wife are now back in his home town. He sums up his style as: "I write about what I see... or think I see... or dream... and in the end, it's all the same really..."

    Related to The Establishment

    Related audiobooks

    Politics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cautionary Tales

      Mar 31, 2024

      Cautionary Tales
      5 min read

    • Article

      Adam LeBor on Television

      Oct 29, 2020

      COVID-19 IS REANIMATING my inner anarchist. Long dormant as I slid (more or less) into bourgeois respectability, it is back, the works of Mikhail Bakunin in one hand and Emma Goldman in the other. Back in my student days at Leeds University during th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Labour’s Blues

      Sep 28, 2023

      BLUE LABOUR IS A SMART, INCISIVE political idea. It proposes that the British Left aligns itself with where the British people are: economically on the Left; moderately socially conservative and quietly patriotic. In the context of state underinvestm

      5 min read

    • Article

      Careful What You Wish For

      Sep 25, 2022

      Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701 (amended to remove gender discrimination in 2013), the heir to the British throne becomes King or Queen the instant the previous monarch dies. So, New Zealand did not rapidly accept Charles as King, as Ch

      8 min read

    • Article

      Have We Lost Our Minds?

      Feb 23, 2023

      Have We Lost Our Minds?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Have We Lost Our Minds?

      Feb 23, 2023

      Have We Lost Our Minds?
      6 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Expose The Demagogues In Our Midst

      Oct 25, 2020

      The Americans blame the Russians for Donald Trump, the British blame Jeremy Corbyn for Boris Johnson, and South Africans want to blame the intra-African ANC fighting for the dream deferred. Perhaps we could realise that we are witnessing a global spe

      4 min read

    • Article

      Bird’s Words

      Feb 14, 2022

      Bird’s Words
      3 min read

    • Article

      Incorrect Thinker

      Jun 27, 2021

      Incorrect Thinker
      3 min read

    • Article

      49 Days Later

      Apr 5, 2024

      49 Days Later
      13 min read

    • Article

      Set An Example

      Feb 24, 2022

      Set An Example
      5 min read

    • Article

      Legacy Of Failure

      Sep 28, 2023

      Legacy Of Failure
      4 min read

    • Article

      Unintended Consequences

      May 29, 2022

      Unintended Consequences
      10 min read

    • Article

      Beware Of The Boris Haters

      Sep 29, 2022

      BORIS JOHNSON WAS ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL PRIME MINISTERS in British history, as well as one of the most remarkable. Loved by a slew of conservative-minded voters, including a huge cohort who had never voted Conservative before, Johnson assembl

      4 min read

    • Article

      Woke This Way

      Feb 22, 2021

      In 1981, Glasgow granted Nelson Mandela the freedom of the city. They were the first in the world to honour him in this way. It was a bold decision. The Free Nelson Mandela movement hadn’t taken hold. He was still seen as a terrorist by establishment

      2 min read

    • Article

      John Harris

      Apr 12, 2024

      John Harris
      3 min read

    • Article

      Natural Orders: On Hilary Leichter’s ‘Temporary’

      Mar 5, 2021

      To be a temp, in other words, is to be an interim human being. It means having almost no rights and begging for scraps to survive. It means hearing, from comfortable superiors, that the world is reasonable and fair, that all you have to do to earn yo

      11 min read

    • Article

      The Strange Death Of Tolerance

      Aug 23, 2023

      The silly donkeys at Coutts got their just deserts in the Nigel Farage affair. A few grossly overpaid execs stood down, and they will no doubt move on to even more overpaid positions. The irrepressibly perky Farage will feel he has won a great victor

      3 min read

    • Article

      Bonfire Of The Decencies

      Jul 13, 2022

      GOVERNMENT is never easy and it gets progressively more difficult as social media, as well as radio, television and the newspapers, vie with each other to undermine and destroy, rather than build and heal. It is not surprising, therefore, that many g

      2 min read

    • Article

      1. The Brightside

      Jul 2, 2016

      1. The Brightside
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Establishment

    4.5/5

    9 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words