The Establishment: RIP

摘要

Reckless Opportunists is an astonishing account of the British ruling class in decomposition. It is the result of twenty years of intense research, over 350 interviews with the heads of corporations, senior civil servants, journalists, politicians and public relations firms. In response to Brexit, Aeron Davis wrote this slim but telling volume in less than three months. It is, in effect, a short anthropology of how the United Kingdom's elite became clueless at governing. Like all good anthropology it is clear on its methodology and the role of the author as a witness and interrogator. At times it reads like a thoughtful, detailed letter on the experience of talking to those who are supposedly the leaders of Britain and its economy.