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Zusatztext [Letts] discharges his duty with flair and tracer precision...an angry book! beautifully written. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext From the Sunday Times bestselling author 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. Updated and expanded in light of the Recession, Letts is back and sharper than ever Zusammenfassung Updated and expanded in light of the Recession, Letts is back and sharper than ever
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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.
