Overview
Forget agreeing to disagree - it?s time to learn How To Be Right.Caller- 'It was a big thing voting Brexit. I was willing to take that sacrifice so we control our own laws.?James O?Brien- 'So I'm just wondering what those laws are that you won't have to obey any more, that made you vote for this economic hit. Can you name one??Caller- 'I wouldn't be able to, no.?James O?Brien has made a career of listening to people phoning in to his daily show on LBC to point the blame at benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James?s show such essential listening - and has made James a standout social media star - is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning.In How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue in current affairs, James tells the stories of the conversations he?s had, explains why people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards.So if you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail readers or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide.'I have had a ringside seat as a significant swathe of the British population was persuaded that their failures were the fault of foreigners, that unisex lavatories threatened their peace of mind and that 'all Muslims? must somehow apologise for terror attacks by extremists. I have tried to dissuade them and sometimes succeeded... The challenge is to distinguishes sharply between the people who told lies and the people whose only offence was to believe them.?- James O?Brien
Full Product Details
Author: James O'Brien
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Imprint: W H Allen
ISBN: 9780753553107
ISBN 10: 0753553104
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
O'Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The Guardian O'Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair. -- The Guardian James O'Brien has become the conscience of liberal Britain * New Statesman * Almost indecently enjoyable -- Robert Webb I know few broadcasters as consistently, forensically, brilliant as James O' Brien. Here, he shows us -- with empathy, edge and exquisite comedy -- how it happens -- Emily Maitlis
James O'Brien has become the conscience of liberal Britain * New Statesman * James O'Brien is the epitome of a smug, sanctimonious, condescending, obsessively politically-correct, champagne-socialist public schoolboy Remoaner * The Sun *
Author Information
James O'Brien is a writer and radio presenter. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement among other places, and his daily current affairs phone-in show on LBC radio has over a million weekly listeners.
