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020			_a9780008564759 _cRM 99.95 _qpaperback
040			_aPPAK _beng _cPPAK _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a364.1323
090	0	0	_a364.1323 _bBUR _dG
100	1		_aBurgis, Tom, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCUCKOOLAND : _bWhere the rich own the truth / _cTom Burgis
264		1	_aLondon : _bWilliam Collins, _c2024
264		1	_c©2024
300			_a307 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_tPart I. Living the dream -- _tHard-won truths -- _tTake-off -- _tA furnace for the past -- _tThe host -- _tProtection -- _tThe right path -- _tMr XY -- _tMaking sense -- _tPart II. 'Want to make your life easy for you' -- _tTwo scenes from a park in lockdown -- _tCakeism -- _tThe boxer -- _tThe libel factory -- _tReputation hit -- _tA world of pain -- _tStatements of truth -- _tThe very fabric of this country -- _tReality.
520			_a"Everywhere, the powerful are making a renewed claim to the greatest prize of all: to own the truth. The power to choose what you want reality to be and impose that reality on the world. For three years, Tom Burgis followed a lead that took him deeper and deeper into Cuckooland - the place where the rich own the truth. The trail snaked from the Kremlin to Kathmandu, Stockholm to the Steppe, from a blood-soaked town square in Uzbekistan to a royal retreat in Scotland. Burgis hunted down oligarchs, developed secret sources and traced vast sums of money flowing between multinational corporations, ex-Soviet dictators and the west's ruling elites. And he found one man who wanted the power to bend reality to his will. This book tells an astonishing story: a tale of secrets and lies that reveals how fragile that truth can be. Whether it's in Kazakh torture chambers or the UK's High Court, the lords of Cuckooland are seizing control of the truth. They decree what stories may be told about war and money and power, what we are permitted to know - and more importantly, what we are not. From the bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland is a deeply reported work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller. It is a story of how globalisation and technological revolution have combined to imperil the foundation of free societies: that the truth belongs to the many, not the few"-- _cPublisher's description
650	1	0	_aCorruption.
650	2	0	_aBusiness enterprises _xCorrupt practices
650	2	0	_aWealth _xMoral and ethical aspects
655		7	_aBiographies
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