'Britain's anatomy is...illuminated by the unmatched politico-social lucidity of a fine mind...a wonderfully dismaying book' -- Nadine Gordimer, Times Literary Supplement 20041203 'A contemporary history with a strong sense of historical change' -- John Hudson, BBC History 20041203 'A superb diagnosis... enormously readable, containing a wealth of entertaining apercus and digressions... [and] a wit that is as sharp as his scalpel' -- New Statesman 20041203 'An impressive and immediate air of gravitas... Sampson is a clear thinker who manages to gently ease the reader through a vast and complex subject' -- Scotland on Sunday 20041203 'Sampson sees power clearly and calmly, as Trollope or Galsworthy did; and it is not a pretty sight...He comes shrewdly at Mr Blair from an unprotected flank' -- Daily Telegraph 20041203 'This is a wise, perceptive and not unduly pessimistic book' -- The Spectator 20040417 'The best books reveal facts which readers can barely believe that they did not know. Who Runs This Place? contains such revelations in abundance' -- The Observer 20040417 'A coherent critique about the nature of political power in British society' -- The Scotsman 20040403 'An important book, raising an increasingly urgent set of questions about who has the power in Tony Blair's Britain, and for whom they exercise it.' -- The Spokesman manifesto 50 20050301 'Indefatigable... in researching information and marshalling facts' -- The Evening Standard 20040419 'Many shrewd and informative chapters' -- Sunday Telegraph 20040404 'A compelling analysis of power' -- The Times 20040402 'No one has matched Sampson's combination of analysis, networking and sharp drafting ! A model of its kind' -- Times Higher Education Supplement 20040402 'An exhilarating air of authority... [thanks to] its author's happy and unusual combination of wisdom and research' -- Mail on Sunday 20040404 'He has stood back from the trees and given us a view of the wood. He is right to find it rotten' -- Sunday Times 20040403 '[Samspson] comes shrewdly at Mr Blair from an unprotected flank' -- Daily Telegraph 20040403 'Sampson succeeds in providing an exhaustive answer to the question he has set himself in the title' -- The Guardian 20040403 'Brilliantly written and deeply sobering' -- JG Ballard, Guardian 20041204 'Sampson's overview of today's corrupt, nepotistic, celebrity-obsessed Britain makes for fascinating, if depressing, reading' -- Daily Telegraph 20050212 'His lucid prose dissects the new centres of power... A bracing read' -- JG Ballard, Daily Telegraph 20041120 'The leap this books asks us to make -- the comparison between the Britain of 1962 and that of 2004 -- is useful and hugely instructive.' -- guardian 20041120 'This anatomy dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets' -- The Times 20050219 'Sampson's last book is up there with his best' -- Evening Standard 20050128 'With his finely honed abilities to trace influences and links he unravels the inner workings of the Blairite Establishment with its old-boy network as well as those of modern British corporate life.' -- Contemporary Review 20050401 'Sampson blows away the smoke that obscures British democracy and ...dissects an old organism still alive and diseased with new secrets.' -- The Times 20050219 'Anthony Sampson's Who Runs This Place? Asks New Labour's central question.' -- Observer 20040320