How America Runs Britain

Britain likes to imagine itself as independent, sovereign, and calmly in charge of its own affairs. How America Runs Britain arrives with the awkward paperwork suggesting otherwise.

Angus Hanton examines the growing influence of American corporations, finance, technology, ownership, and economic power over British life. This is not invasion by redcoats in reverse, but something quieter and more efficient: data centres, private equity, tech platforms, supermarkets, healthcare contracts, tax structures, investment flows, and the general sense that national control may have been outsourced while nobody was looking.

It is a book about power, but not always the kind that waves a flag. Hanton looks at how US companies and investors shape what Britons buy, watch, eat, use, rent, search, stream, and depend upon. The result is part economics, part politics, part corporate anatomy, and part uncomfortable household inventory: how much of “British” daily life is still actually British?

This 2025 Swift Press edition, in good condition, is a sharp, current non-fiction title for readers interested in politics, economics, globalisation, corporate power, and the slow realisation that sovereignty may come with terms and conditions.

How America Runs Britain is brisk, provocative, and quietly alarming — ideal for anyone who enjoys discovering that the special relationship may include a management structure.

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