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 ...and the rest! May 30, 2010
Mr. Ian Seddon (France)
A book you can pick at, as and when you have the time. You have to agree with the choice of people featured, and the things said about them. Let's hope there will be another similar book on the ones that got away!
Perfect title: "50 People who buggered up Britain" March 21, 2010
Mrs. C. Glover
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book should be compulsory reading in all schools. It is frankly honest in its descriptions of the folk who thought they were doing good - they were mostly feathering their own nests and playing a class war.
 A good read February 20, 2010
BE CARTER (Plymouth,Devon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love reading Quentin Letts newspaper articles as he is very witty so I was expecting this book to be as good which I think it is.I haven't actually read it all yet but so far I have enjoyed it.
 A bilious rant February 13, 2010
Blogpiper
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book deserves to be written. It does not deserve to be written so badly. Its pages are devoid of the humour which Letts rightly finds lacking in EastEnders (pp. 229-231). Worse is its lack of substance. Blair and Thatcher (among others) should be put in a dock such as this, but to have their record analysed, not merely barracked. I'm a Dawkins supporter in the main, but could do a far better adverse criticism of him than the diatribe that appears here. A few chapters, such as those on Michael Martin and John Scarlett, rise above the mire, but these exceptions are not enough to redeem a predictable, tedious book which only a Little Englander could love. Of Janet Street-Porter, Letts says, "Many of her opinions are off-the-peg metropolitan views. She simply makes them sound different because she speaks in such a jagged, revolting voice" (pp. 236-7). Physician, heal thyself, or at least cast out the beam before going for the mote. And, in passing, "sanguine" should be "phlegmatic" on p. 80. This book is a bilious rant. Why buy it?
 Quentin Letts makes it 51 ... February 13, 2010
TheBlart (London)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
The problem with Quentin Letts doing a book like this, as anyone who's ever seen him on Question Time might testify, is that he's a smug, self-satisfied, over-privileged, bigot and general twit, of modest talents. Why else would he be working for the Daily Mail? So while potshots at, say, Ed Balls (a politician) might be fair enough, some of his other views are based on his own class-riddled prejudices - he attacks some very, very soft targets, and for all the wrong reasons. A good, middle-aged grumble-fest is fine for a bit of a laugh, but ultimately, the nature of the points made, and the nature of the writer, take the fun out of the experience. Clive James and PJ O'Rourke come to mind as commentators who have written far sharper books on similar subject-matter. Quentin Letts is a long, long, way from being either.
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