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The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Paperback

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099537621
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099537625
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.71 x 7.8 inches

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Heather Brooke worked as a political and crime reporter in the US before moving to Britain where she is now a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner. Her investigation into the expense accounts of Members of Parliament led to the biggest clear-out of politicians that country had seen in decades and the first forced resignation of the Speaker of the House in 300 years. She writes for all of the main UK national papers and has published three books.

Heather Brooke has won numerous awards including the Judges' Prize at the 2010 British Press Awards, the FOI Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and a Freedom of Expression Award from Index on Censorship. She is a visiting professor at London's prestigious Department of Journalism at City University.

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J.A. Kunzler

Happy to gift this Heather "Newsbrooke" Brooke, Ph.D. book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2021

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I've always been impressed by what Heather "Newsbrooke" Brooke, Ph.D. has to say - so much so that I buy copies of her book to send to friends. Like a Canadian pundit & fellow Anglophile working on topics like control of news media and propaganda similar to the issues raised in this book.

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Charles

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 21, 2013

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This book is written by journalist Heather Brooke, she is most famous for exposing the MPs' expenses scandal.
It is about how the government collects internal statistics then lies and misrepresents them to the general public, and then has the nerve to charge us for the information.

The author believes that a healthy democracy needs people to be able to get details on what the government is doing so we can see what they are up to with our money, which hopefully would stop them lying to us.

Examples of government lying and information hiding are giving for local council, the courts, police, statistics fiddling, government PR, the aforementioned MP expenses scandal and other things.

One example is how the statistics on road safety showed a drop in accidents since speed cameras and speed humps have been introduced suggesting that they do prevent road accidents, but unfortunately it turns out the drop was because the government got the police to record traffic accidents differently and in fact the number of people admitted to hospitals from traffic accidents has not fallen suggesting speed cameras/humps make no difference and are a waste of taxpayers' money.

Another example was a case of a women that complained to the council about vandalism and the council branded her a potentially violent person for allegedly shouting at them. There was no evidence and the women was not given a chance to tell her side of the story. Been labeled potentially violent resulted in her having to withdraw her application to be a foster-parent. She ended up suing the council for libel and won.

The most jaw dropping of the lot was when the book's writer used a freedom of information request to get MP's expenses, the government actually heavily censored the information but one of the people doing the censoring leaked the uncensored version. The leaked uncensored version showed many MPs to be milking the expenses system and the resulting scandal caused resignations, sackings, de-selections, retirement announcements, public apologies and the repayment of expenses. A few MPs/lords were even prosecuted and sentenced to jail.

This is an excellent book and is likely to make the reader very angry, my only complaint is that it lacks details and reads a bit like a tabloid paper but the quality of information is still good enough for five stars.

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Should be required reading in all secondary schools

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 30, 2013

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If you live in the allegedly "United" Kingdom and were under the impression that your elected representatives were working in yours and the country's interests, then Heather Brooke's 'The Silent State' will dispel that myth. I've been around long enough to know that those in authority are not the paragons of virtue that they purport to be, but until I read this book I didn't realise how bad things have become. Using a series of well-researched and well-documented examples, the author exposes practices that the adjective "dubious" doesn't do justice to, and throughout the book I had to ask myself how things had become so bad. Although the book finishes on a somewhat triumphant note, with the author hopeful that things will get better, I'm sorry to say that the situation has become worse, so I'm hoping that a follow-up will be forthcoming. I'd recommend that this book be accepted into the Nation Curriculum at secondary level - if we have the power to change anything we need to get our up-and-coming voters aware of what they're letting themselves into. Read this book - you won't regret it.

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David J. Hayward

A REAL EYE OPENER!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2013

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This book will really open your eyes to all the double speak and PR rubbish you are bombarded with on a daily basis. This book will let you look behind the curtain at all the truth that the governments do not want you to see, and show you how the state uses it's population to serve it's own means and keep you in the dark.
I loved it, and like Nick Cohen's offerings, could not put it down.

From databases and I.D. cards through to billions spent on PR and bureaucracy for it's own sake and to exert power over the population. This book lifts the lid on the sham that is government for tthe people, and how they maintain control by controling who sees what, and making us pay over and over for our own supression and deceipt.
The real cost of all this is the apathy of the population, loss of true freedom, and our future in the hands of greedy corrupt corporations.

A. Stanhope

Big brother is watching you....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 23, 2013

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Not sure why I brought this really. I was probably feeling paranoid and wanted reassurances that big brother wasn't watching me. Well it was really interesting and made me open my eyes to what a strange country we live in. Confirmed my worse suspicions that politicians are only in the job for their own personal gain. I have lent my copy to my brother so probably won't ever get it back! We need more journalists like Heather Brooke and less like that lot at the news of the world who hack peoples phones.

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Richard Low

Must have reading material.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 4, 2018

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Freedom of the city and a knighthood for Heather Brooke NOW the lady is a class act , everyone should read this book to see how much the public have been fleeced by those we elect , BIG BROTHER IS ON HIS WAY.

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