Book description
Richard Littlejohn's cast of characters  including Two Jags, the
Wicked Witch, Captain Hook and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban
 are now part of the fabric of the nation. He ridicules the country
Britain has become over the past ten years - the barmy bureaucracy,
the surveillance state, the petty interference in our lives, the
suffocating regulations, policemen and judges who think they're part
of the social services and the insanities of the 'elf 'n' safety
industry, which has created such idiocies as forcing revellers
celebrating Guy Fawkes Night to watch a bonfire on a big screen.
'Littlejohn has been ... a vivid exponent of a great British
columnar style that stretches back five centuries or more. He's a
distant, bastard cousin of Thomas Nash, Daniel Defoe and Alexander
Pope. Cassandra and Bernard Levin might justly buy him a pint in the
Cheshire Cheese. Like or loathe him, he's the real, talented deal.' Observer
Richard Littlejohn is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster,
and author of two best-selling books. He has written for London's
Evening Standard and Punch and is still a contributor
to the Spectator. His twice-weekly columns in the Daily
Mail and the Sun earned him a place in the inaugural
Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of
the past 40 years.
He has been Fleet Street's Columnist of the Year and was named
Irritant of the Year by the BBC's What The Papers Say awards for his
unrivalled ability to get up the noses of the Establishment. His
extensive radio and television work has brought him both a Sony award
and a Silver Rose of Montreux.
Littlejohn's satirical novel To Hell In A Handcart was the
fastest-selling fiction paperback on its release in 2001. His highly
acclaimed non-fiction book You Couldn't Make It Up skewered
John Major's Conservative government - much the same as
Littlejohn's Britain does for the Blair years.
