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ALEX RENTON

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Alex Renton

New documentary Boarding schools: the secret shame – Exposure broadcast Feb 2018

New book Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class April 2017

“A thoughtful and sensitive indictment of one of the cornerstones of the British establishment.” The Observer

“Breathtaking… required reading” LBC

 “Impassioned, candid and thoroughly researched” Sunday Telegraph

“A horrible read” Financial Times

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Stiff Upper Lip

This is the story of generations of parents, Britain's richest and grandest, who believed that being miserable at school was necessary to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a price they accepted for the preservation of their class, and their entitlement. The children who were moulded by this misery and abuse went on - as they still do - to run Britain's public institutions and private companies. Link to Stiff Upper Lip.

Planet Carnivore

How to be a moral meat-eater. A short, sharp tour of the cheap meat habit, its costs and its solutions. £1.99/$3 from Amazon, Bookstore and Guardian Books.
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Alex is a campaigning journalist specialising in poverty, development, the environment, food culture and food policy around the world. I’ve won awards for investigative journalism, war reporting and food writing.

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