
Stop Bloody Bossing Me About: How We Need To Stop Being Told What To Do
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'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 TimesHands, 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
Review
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 ―
Mail on Sunday
Underneath the jocularity of Letts's style is a lot of real anger -- Roger Lewis ―
The Times
Brilliantly critical, but always warm-hearted and fair -- Rory Knight Bruce ―
The Field
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 ―
Daily Telegraph
Book Description
Sunday Times bestselling author of
50 People Who Buggered up Britain, Quentin Letts, is back, his wit sharper than ever as he reveals the real pandemic plaguing society: the passive-aggressive finger-wagging of the managerial class, as they use the coronavirus to assert their control.
From the Back Cover
'Underneath the jocularity of Letts's style is a lot of real anger' Roger Lewis, The TimesHands, 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
About the Author
Quentin Letts is political sketch writer for
The Times and theatre critic for the
Sunday Times. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for
The Times, gossip columnist for the
Daily Telegraph and parliamentary sketch writer for the
Daily Mail. He is the author of the
Sunday Times bestseller
50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.
Product Overview
- ISBN: 9780349135175
- Author(s): Quentin Letts
- Publisher: smeikalbooks
- Pages: 256
- Format: Paperback