Books by Alex Brummer

An optimistic exploration of how, through radical economic reform, the United Kingdom can prosper and flourish in the new global economy

Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world's banking system some seven years after the credit crunch.

In 2010 the iconic British chocolate manufacturer Cadbury was taken over by the US food giant Kraft. Today, foreign companies control vast swathes of the British economy, from ports to bridges, from the National Lottery to airlines, and from high tech companies to gas and electricity suppliers.

Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters. What on earth went wrong? The author finds out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a bullied and ineffectual civil service, and highly placed but unscrupulous individuals all played their part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system.

It's a story of greed, mismanagement and dithering in which bankers seeking to make a quick buck, regulators engaged in turf wars and blame-avoidance, and governments paralysed by the sheer scale of the problem all conspired to bring the banking system almost to its knees.