Bog-standard Britain

No one would attack equality, would they? Well, Quentin Letts just might. He's on the rampage again; this time he's gunning for the folk who want to crush individualism in our nation of once indignant eccentrics. For Letts, equality's been defiled by ethnic-grievance gangs and harpies of feminist orthodoxy, by risk-averse jackboots of town-hall bureaucracy with quotas and creeds. He's furious that fair damsel Liberty has been whored by best-practice brigades and by municipal bores insistent that everyone has a prize and no culture dominates. Letts' outrage stalks the glottal-stopping oikishness of our streets, linked, he believes, to modern society's refusal to deplore. For him, the prattishness of Jonathan Ross is part of the mad insistence that vulgarity is valid. Still think equality's such a great thing? You might not after reading this urgent, exasperated, witheringly funny book. '"Praise for 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain" [Quentin Letts] discharges his duty with flair and tracer precision...an angry book, beautifully written' - "The Spectator".

ISBN 1849011206   Pages 240 ISBN13 9781849011204 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 385 Publisher Constable and Robinson   Published in London Imprint Constable   Height (mm) 204 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 146 Publication date 29 Oct 2009   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 320.941   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		1
Pt. I		Communications
		Jonathan Dross		9
		The S Word		13
		Polly's Pepper		19
		Call Me Tony		27
		The Politics of Names		31
		Don't Kick the Bucket Woman		37
		Awright, Mate?		41
		Crackle and Slop		45
		Waiting Game		49
		Not to Knight, Thank You		53
		Eliza's Lie		57
Pt. II		Engaging the Brain
		Quack Doctors		71
		Third-degree Burn		75
		Exams: A Mugabe Economy		79
		Cowell's Circus Maximus		89
		Beyond Belief		93
		Le Patron Worships lci		99
		Courting Disaster		101
		Broad Brush		105
		Channel Phwoarr		109
		Bum Rap		113
Pt. III		Out of the Office
		Do They Mean Us?		121
		Par for the Coarse		125
		Hogarth's Inheritors		129
		Aussie Miss Rules		133
		A Cox and Ball Story		139
		Jaded Generation		145
		Brown in Town		149
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