A depressing catalogue of nepotism on the grandest of scales

A searing and often brutal tale of a media family at war, Bonfire of the Murdochs makes TV’s Succession look almost tame in comparison, says Andy Walker in this book review. Like most people on the left, I have no time for the media mogul Rupert Murdoch. His business modus operandi represents everything that is wrong about, not just the media industry, but the capitalist system itself. Greed is good, shafting people who get in your way is fair game and anything that enables you to make more profits is absolutely fine – all of this is part and parcel…

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