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Things Can Only Get Worse?
eBook - Twenty confusing years in the life of a Labour supporter
ISBN/EAN: 9781473543171
Umbreit-Nr.: 4614191
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 368 S., 1.34 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 14.09.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><i>'as the Labour candidate I prepared for every possible question on the local radio Election Phone-In. What I had not prepared for was my mum ringing up to say that she agreed with John OFarrell. On EVERYTHING.'</i></p><p><i>Where Did We Go Right?</i>is the personal story of one political activist helping Labour progress from its 1997 landslide to the unassailable position it enjoys today. Along the way, he stood for Parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he was dropped from Tony and Cheries Christmas card list after he revealed he always sent their card on to a friend from the SWP; and he campaigned for a new non-selective inner-city state school, then realised this meant he had to send his kids to a non-selective inner-city state school.</p><p>The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling<i>Things Can Only Get Better</i>is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Boris and Trump. A roller-coaster ride through the last two decades via the very best political jokes (excluding the ones that keep getting elected).</p>
- Kurztext
- 'Hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.' Owen Jones, author of The Establishment Where Did We Go Right? is the personal story of one political activist helping Labour progress from its 1997 landslide to the unassailable position it enjoys today. Along the way, he stood for Parliament against Theresa May but failed to step into her shoes; he was dropped from Tony and Cherie s Christmas card list after he revealed he always sent their card on to a friend from the SWP; and he campaigned for a new non-selective inner-city state school, then realised this meant he had to send his kids to a non-selective inner-city state school. The long-awaited sequel to the best-selling Things Can Only Get Better is for everyone who could use a good laugh after Brexit, Boris and Trump. A roller-coaster ride through the last two decades via the very best political jokes (excluding the ones that keep getting elected).
- Autorenportrait
- <p>John O'Farrell's first book was a bestselling memoir,<i>Things Can Only Get Better</i>. Since then he has published five novels:<i>The Man Who Forgot His Wife</i>,<i>May Contain Nuts</i>,<i>This Is Your Life</i>,<i>The Best a Man Can Get</i>and most recently<i>There's Only Two David Beckhams</i>. He has also written two best-selling history books:<i>An Utterly Impartial History of Britain</i>and<i>An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain</i>, as well as three collections of journalism from his<i>Guardian</i>columns. His books have been translated into over twenty-five languages and have been adapted for radio and television. A former comedy scriptwriter for such productions as<i>Spitting Image, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, Murder Most Horrid</i>and<i>Chicken Run</i>, he is founder of the UK's first daily news satire website<i>NewsBiscuit</i>and more recently co-wrote the Broadway musical<i>Something Rotten!</i></p>