Book description
Which fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous
propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the
modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.
Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve
it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put
the 'h' in Aspidistra, to the perpetrators of the 'Credit Crunch'.
Margaret Thatcher ruptured our national unity. The creators of
EastEnders trashed our brand over high tea. Thus, he argues,
are the people who made our country the ugly, scheming, cheating,
beer-ridden bum of the Western world. Here are the fools and knaves
and vulgarians who ripped down our British glories and imposed the
tawdry and the trite. In a half century we have gone from
end-of-Empire to descent-into-Hell.
