Confessions of a Reluctant Capitalist

With his customary robustness, Giles Fraser recounts a dramatic conversion experience that took place in a Notting Hill street cafe and reflects on its life-changing implications. A paid up, left-leaning socialist, his earlier conversion to Christianity had only strengthened his belief that wealth creation was another name for greed. With its ‘eye of a needle’ theology, Christianity surely stood against all forms of capitalism. Then, in Notting Hill, watching a street market in action, it all changed and a moral and theological vision of market capitalism took form. Agree with him or not, Giles Fraser is impossible to ignore. Here he is at his provocative best.