Book of the week
Vassal State
How America Runs Britain
Angus HantonSwift Press, £25
During World War II, Britons grumbled (in the words of comedian Tommy Trinder) that the Americans were “overpaid, oversexed and over here”. The GIs responded that the British were “underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower”. Not much has changed in the years since, at least according to Angus Hanton. American troops may have helped save us from Hitler, but American economic domination and ownership of British firms
