Tag: boris-johnson
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How They Broke Britain Part IV
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 And so we reach the end of James O’Brien’s brilliant, epic excoriation, of which one reader joked that he kept his copy in the fridge for safety reasons and another said that he had had to stop listening to the audiobook version whilst driving because…
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How They Broke Britain Part II
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 Chapter 5. Nigel Farage. The author generally eschews criticising people for things they cannot help, like their personal appearance. But his skewering of Farage seems entirely justifiable since this is how he chooses to appear (he actually prefers wine to beer when he is not…
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How They Broke Britain Part I
How they Broke Britain by James O’Brien, WH Allen, 2023 As one would expect if you have heard or seen the author’s radio broadcasts, this is an angry, deeply incisive, passionate and incendiary book. There are two things it cries out for, so let me get those out of the way. The first is a…
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Nuts & Bolts
Nuts & Bolts; Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way), by Roma Agrawal, Hodder & Stoughton, 2023, is a book I asked for and was given on my birthday last year. I was hopeless at physics at school. Our teacher, Mr Baker, seemed to have long since lost interest in the…