‘The inimitable Quentin Letts dares to say in a new book what we’ve all been secretly thinking’ Mail on Sunday
‘Fuming and chuckling by turns’ Daily Telegraph
‘Underneath the jocularity of Letts’s style is a lot of real anger’ Roger Lewis, The Times
Hands, face, space. Curfews. Don’t drink. Bend your knees. Conform, obey, comply – surrender. British life has become infested by bossiness.
Post Lockdown, Quentin Letts storms back with a vituperative howl against the ‘bossocracy’. They tell us what to do, what to say, how to think. Letts gives them a prolonged, resonant raspberry. He names the guilty men and women: Dominic Cummings, Prof Neil Ferguson, that strutting self-polisher Nicola Sturgeon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cressida Dick, Michael Gove, even the sainted Sir David Attenborough. Bang! They all take a barrel. And then there’s publicity-prone plonker Matt Hancock posing for photographs while doing his ‘Mr Fit’ press-ups.
Reasonable people have had enough of being bossed about. And when reasonable people stop respecting the law, society has a problem.
‘Brilliantly critical, but always warm-hearted and fair’ Rory Knight Bruce, The Field
‘Fuming and chuckling by turns’ Daily Telegraph
‘Underneath the jocularity of Letts’s style is a lot of real anger’ Roger Lewis, The Times
Hands, face, space. Curfews. Don’t drink. Bend your knees. Conform, obey, comply – surrender. British life has become infested by bossiness.
Post Lockdown, Quentin Letts storms back with a vituperative howl against the ‘bossocracy’. They tell us what to do, what to say, how to think. Letts gives them a prolonged, resonant raspberry. He names the guilty men and women: Dominic Cummings, Prof Neil Ferguson, that strutting self-polisher Nicola Sturgeon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cressida Dick, Michael Gove, even the sainted Sir David Attenborough. Bang! They all take a barrel. And then there’s publicity-prone plonker Matt Hancock posing for photographs while doing his ‘Mr Fit’ press-ups.
Reasonable people have had enough of being bossed about. And when reasonable people stop respecting the law, society has a problem.
‘Brilliantly critical, but always warm-hearted and fair’ Rory Knight Bruce, The Field
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Underneath the jocularity of Letts's style is a lot of real anger
Parliamentary sketch-writer Letts gives a short, punchy account of how small-minded officials, virtue-signalling corporations and craven politicians are ruining Britain. His invective will have you fuming and chuckling by turns
As witty as he's defiantly unwoke, the inimitable Quentin Letts dares to say in a new book what we've all been secretly thinking
Brilliantly critical, but always warm-hearted and fair