As corporate goliaths grow ever larger, Britain looks increasingly exposed | Will Hutton

A handful of companies now wields massive global power. Outside the EU, we will be their preyWe live in a world of corporate goliaths and the trend to gigantism is accelerating. The new era of hi-tech data capitalism has an embedded proclivity to monopoly. The bigger the network, whether Facebook or Google, the more valuable it is to be connected. Big is good in the digital universe, while even bigger is better.Meanwhile, analogue capitalism, confronted by the challenge of the new, is reacting b