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Owen Jones’s new book should be called The Consensus: And How I Want to Change it

A review of The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, by Owen Jones. The analysis is better when it is ideological rather than historical

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It Owen Jones

Allen Lane, pp.368, £16.99, ISBN: 9781846147197

Owen Jones’s first book, Chavs, was a political bestseller. This follow-up skips over the middle classes and goes to the other end of society, the ruling class. On the cover of The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It the cod-philosopher and comedian Russell Brand endorses the author as ‘this generation’s Orwell’.

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