What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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Certain other articles rang stunningly true, such as 'Britons want a bit of drama from their leaders - and Keir Starmer isn't serving it'. If however despite the events of the past few years you have continued to put your faith in the Tories then I don’t think it would appeal!

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Even a dash of Trump, to show it’s not just us suffering from an introverted popularism in our politics. Promotional "Headline" Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era with Britain's favourite columnist. Although that’s not to say that this book was unrelenting doom and gloom - Marina Hyde’s writing is extremely witty and had me laughing out loud a lot of the time. Each year in politics as its own section (2016: Binfire of the Vanities, 2021: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before) with the other topics interspersed. These pieces are as you would expect from someone, working themselves into a frenzy over little celebrities, are FROTHY and full of SHOUTY capital letters, sometimes whole sentences, and yups.She begins by pursuing him through a mythical underworld, reciting spells that cast him as a hapless figure from Narnia, Star Wars and Game of Thrones: by turns he is a “wildly miscast Aslan”, a “gelatinous Sith” and a “blobby Cersei Lannister”. Her columns from 2019 on the last days of Theresa May and the rise of Boris Johnson must be the most hilarious sustained flood of personal abuse ever put into print.

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Fittingly, Marina Hyde looks like a kind of demented Alice in Wonderland on the cover of What Just Happened: Dispatches from Turbulent Times. Not only is she laugh out loud funny, but I end up nodding along with her viewpoint so hard I’m surprised my head hasn’t fallen off. By dying in April 2014 of a suspected heroin overdose, who knows how much entertaining copy Peaches Geldof deprived Hyde of?You lose one form and you lose your job, your cancer treatment, your benefits, your liberty; you lose a generation's forms and you're the effing prime minister. As readers of Private Eye’s parodic Diary column already know, Craig Brown is Britain’s funniest balloon burster, gleefully taking his needle to the great and good of showbiz, society and politics, plus Jeffrey Archer. If it’s difficult now to remember this laughable kangaroo bum-muncher was once health secretary, imagine what else can be buried by the time a ponderous public inquiry manages to egest a report. Not living in the UK, I am not ofay with a level of detail that I would likely need to appreciate, to have lived through, to get the most from this selected collection of Guardian thrice weekly articles written by the author. I'm with her to the death about the mendacity lying sexism racism and all the rest of the sewer we live in as a result of successive and worsening political and social scene.