An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our lives.
Tamasin Cave is a writer, campaigner and commentator. She is a
director of Spinwatch, which investigates corporate PR and
lobbying, as well as government spin. Since 2007, she has also led
the campaign for transparency regulations for lobbyists.
Andy Rowell is an award-winning journalist and author. As a
founder-director of Spinwatch, he has been writing about the
industry for over twenty years, particularly as it relates to
environmental and health issues. He is also a part-time senior
research fellow at the University of Bath.
Fascinating… [Cave and Rowell] lay bare the tricks of the trade,
from "astroturfing" (whipping up what looks like grassroots protest
against new regulatory threats, but is in fact a front for industry
interests) to using thinktanks as "wonk whores" that can push
helpful ideas
*Guardian*
Indispensable
*Guardian*
Demonstrates beyond doubt how lobbyists distort democracy and
ensure that elite opinion crowds out public views
*New Statesman*
A chillingly accurate description of how presentation and spin
trumps substantive argument in the upper echelons of power... A
Quiet Word is important and, generally, right
*Independent on Sunday*
A timely account of how voters are conceding power to a silent
industry
*Mail on Sunday*
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