# The Silent State

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- Authors: [Heather Brooke](https://www.bookquiver.com/heather-brooke)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-01-06

## Description

Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At a time when the State knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can never be a true democracy. * SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights and the true cost of 'public' information. * PROPAGANDA* : spin, PR and bullshitting by numbers. The British government spent £38m more on advertising last year than their closest competitor, Proctor and Gamble - find out what they spent it on! *SURVEILLANCE* : discover the extent of Britain's network of databases spying on ordinary citizens, *EXPENSES* : read, for the first time, the exclusive and definitive account of Brooke's five-year campaign to have MPs' expenses revealed, which rocked the nation and transformed Britain's political landscape.

## Editions

### The Silent State

- Publisher: windmill_books
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-762-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2011-01-06
- Language: en_GB