So badly wrong, so catastrophically wrong, that people get stuck in snow blizzards and families freeze to death in their cars. Not just a bit wrong-like predicting it will be a sunny day and finding yourself caught in showers-but wrong, wrong, wrong. ix Introduction Imagine being a weather forecaster and getting it wrong. I would be utterly lost and even grumpier than usual without them. Most of all, I want to say thank you to my fantastic family-Rebecca, Frankie and Arthur-for all the love and laughter they have given me. Although readers may notice I am critical of both the media and politics, I know both are filled with good people and I am far more appreciative than I might seem for the opportunities they have given me.
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I am also very grateful to Michael Dwyer, Jon de Peyer, Alison Alexanian and the whole team at Hurst Publishers for the patient and professional way they have published this book. They include Spencer Livermore, Aurea Carpenter, Rachel Sylvester, Alastair Campbell, Douglas Alexander, Patrick Wintour, Matthew McGregor, Andrew Cooper, Rachel Kinnock, Robert Peston and Roger Alton.
Many other friends have kindly read chapters and offered much- valued advice. Emily Spence and Mathew Baldwin, my sister and brother, have watched my back and told me where I am going wrong in the way that only older siblings can-especially now that our much-missed parents have gone. Emma Craigie has given me brilliantly precise suggestions, as well as occasional reminders of the need for a degree of political balance. Georgina Capel, my agent, is a hugely positive and generous force of nature. Marc Stears has provided a stream of ideas, energy and ad hoc political theory tutorials, even from the other side of the world. Rebecca Nicolson, my wife, who has been a constant source of wise counsel, encouragement and tolerance. To Rebecca, Frankie and Arthur And in loving memory of my parents, Robin and Sylvia Baldwin Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part One The Battle For Control 1. How the Media Challenged for Control 2. How Politics Tried to Regain Control 3. How Everyone Began to Lose Control 7 43 79 Part Two The Rise Of The Alternative 4. }isablement and Dependency in the Media 5. Tyranny and Temptation in Politics 6. Three Shocks to ‘The System’ 107 139 177 Part Three Delete 7. |rashing Democracy 8. |an Democracy be Rebooted? 221 261 Notes 295 Index 341 vii Acknowledgements There are people without whom this book would certainly not exist. ISBN: 9781787380066 This book is printed using paper from registered sustainable and managed sources.
A Cataloguing-in-Publication data record for this book is available from the British Library. The right of Tom Baldwin to be identified as the author of this publication is asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. (Publishers) Ltd., 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PL © Tom Baldwin, 2018 All rights reserved. Citation previewĬtrl Alt Delete Hurst & Company, London First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by C.
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