Five times 15.
Hi, good evening and welcome here to 5x15.
And I'm absolutely thrilled tonight to have George Monbier as our guest.
George has been promoting this extraordinary book.
It's quite small and it packs a quite extraordinary punch.
It's called the Invisible Doctrine, the Secret History of Neoliberalism.
And on the back there's many, many good quotes,
but one I particularly like says the Secret History of Neoliberalism is really the ultimate crime novel,
one in which we all play a part.
Now, the fact that all of you are here means you don't need much introduction to George,
so suffice it to say, he's one of our best columnists.
He's been a consistent voice fighting from the left for justice, for transparency and for openness.
And he's an all round splendid human being.
And when we were talking before, I said, can I kick off by asking you what neoliberalism means?
And he said, no, actually, let's jump one stage back and let's start talking about capitalism,
because you can sure as hell bet
that no one on the BBC would ever ask a straightforward question like,
what is capitalism?
So, George, over to you.
Thank you for being, joining us from down there near Totnes.