Overview
Littlejohn returns with a fiercely hilarious collection of pieces on the Brown Years The Daily Mail's most succesful columnist delivers the coup de grace to New Labour, as the nation voted them out of office. He is not only tough on Brown and the causes of Brown, but devastatingly funny about 'Elf and Safety', 'Yuman Rights', the Surveillance Society and all the bureacratic absurdities that make modern life worse than anything George Orwell ever imagined. But, as the new introductory material reveals, the coalition of Lib Dem and Conservative also means same meat, different gravy. And already we have the first casualty of the cabinet in David Laws, another rich MP exploiting his position to claim expenses paid to his secret lover. 'Littlejohn has been ... a vivid exponent of a great British columnar style that stretches back five centuries or more. He's a distant, bastard cousin of Thomas Nash, Daniel Defoe and Alexander Pope. Cassandra and Bernard Levin might justly buy him a pint in the Chesire Cheese. Like or loathe him, he's the real, talented deal.' Observer
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Littlejohn
Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.262kg
ISBN: 9780099547563
ISBN 10: 0099547562
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 04 November 2010
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
If you prize free expression, this book is essential reading. I was unable to find fault with a single sentiment -- Roger Lewis Daily Telegraph
If you prize free expression, this book is essential reading. I was unable to find fault with a single sentiment -- Roger Lewis * Daily Telegraph *
If you prize free expression, this book is essential reading. I was unable to find fault with a single sentiment -- Roger Lewis Daily Telegraph 20100403
Author Information
Richard Littlejohn is an award-winning Daily Mail columnist and broadcaster, and Number One best-selling author. In 2012, he was given the prestigious Edgar Wallace Prize for fine writing by the London Press Club. He was voted one of the most influential journalists of the past forty years by Press Gazette, has been Fleet Street's Columnist of the Year and was named Irritant of the Year by the BBC's What The Papers Say for his unrivalled ability to get up the noses of the great and good. His satirical books and his highly-acclaimed novel To Hell in a Handcart have all been best sellers. Richard has written for the Sun, London's Evening Standard, Punch and the Spectator. He has presented his own TV series and documentaries on LWT, Sky, Channel 4 and Carlton, winning a Silver Rose of Montreux. As a radio presenter he has worked for London's LBC and the BBC, receiving a Sony Award for his football phone-in show 6-0-6.
