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by Richard Littlejohn (Author), Andrew Woodall (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 53 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
  • Audible Release Date: 25 Sep 2007
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ4438
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)

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Littlejohn describes his job as sitting at the back throwing bottles. His twice-weekly columns have become an essential fix for millions of readers of the Daily Mail and the Sun over the past two decades.

In Littlejohn's Britain Littlejohn takes aim at the Blair years, lampooning New Labour with polemic, pastiche, parody, satire, and savage social commentary.

His cast of characters, including Two Jags, the Wicked Witch, Captain Hook, and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban have become part of the fabric of the nation.

Littlejohn ridicules the country Britain has become over the past 10 years: the barmy bureaucracy, the surveillance state, the petty interference in our lives, the suffocating regulations, policeman and judges who think they're part of the social services, and the insanities of the 'elf 'n' safety industry, which have created such idiocies as forcing revellers celebrating Guy Fawkes Night to watch a bonfire on a big screen.

Littlejohn has a bloodhound's nose for cant, hypocrisy, and lunacy, and an unparalleled talent for pouring scorn on the arrogance of the powerful - while making his readers roar with laughter.

It's all here, in hilarious detail.

© Richard Littlejohn; (P) Random House
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89 of 92 people found the following review helpful
real tragic lives 3 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
A touching, harrowing contribution to the misery memoir genre - the story of one man's struggle with sexual inadequacy, his fears of repressed homosexuality, and the humiliation his dreadful flatulence daily heaps on him. Anyone who has a heart should buy this book out of social concern.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In the words of Soren Kierkegaard, "The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality." I cannot help that this terrible fight must come to exist between those foremost modern thinkers, Richard Littlejohn and Jeremy "I like cars" Clarkson. And when it does, the difference of quality will surely favour Clarkson because he did that DVD of crashing things into caravans.
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164 of 178 people found the following review helpful
Beguiling, 15 May 2007
Format:Hardcover
Top flight! Once more John LittleRichard hits the nail on the head, we're losing what made this country great - hack journalism.

In a deftly coded satire on modern journalism Littlejohn reminds us of The Daily Mail's support of Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists.

With his continual reference to 'recycling nazis' and 'the country our grandparents fought for' he brilliantly alludes to the papers owner Lord Rothermere, a friend and supporter of both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, which influenced the Mail's political stance toward them up to 1939.

If you like LittleJohns opinions I urge you to get somebody to read it out aloud for you, priceless!
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Oh dear!
Get this book if you also believe that benefit 'scroungers' are everywhere, that this country is overloaded with 'illegal immigrants', that homosexuality is 'not normal', etc. Read more
Published 7 months ago by veganpanda
He should be PM
I used to believe Richard Littlejohn was a far-right bigot. Maybe that was because I'd been told so by the so-called left-wing, who these days seem about as left-wing as Lord Haw... Read more
Published 12 months ago by StormSworder
insightful
Imagine for a moment you lived in Florida and were paid to have unfounded intentional inflamatratoty opinions about a country which relative to the rest of the world actualy has a... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. T. Eagling
A great book by a truly great man
What a fantastic book. Richard Littlejohn reminds me of Winston Churchill, he wasn't scared to say what he thought! Read more
Published 19 months ago by David Williams
Do not be confused
I don't know about anyone else but I often get this man confused with Rod Liddle - I mean they both have something to do with newspapers (they do the cartoons I think? Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by Gavin Wright
excellent!!
This book just about sums up blair and brown's britain today. they have turned this once great country into a fetid pool of pc madness pandering to eu control!! Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by Turner
Littlejohn's Britain
One of the funniest and most interesting books I've read. So far I've bought 3 copies, and no doubt will buy more. Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2009 by Mrs. Oriel G. Bayliss
Brilliant
In short this is the funniest and at the same time most serious book about the diabolical mess the Labour party has left this country in. A must read. Everyone should have a copy. Read more
Published on 23 May 2009 by Mr. A. Fisher
Utter utter tripe
Really one of the least funny, interesting or even mildly entertaining books I have ever had the misfortune to read. Adn about as informative as a BNP campaign leaflet. I.e. Read more
Published on 7 April 2009 by Peter Brant
How would he know about Britain if he doesn't live in it?
Richard Littlejohn spends most of his time living in a gated community within Florida. When he comes back to Britain (read: England) he hardly goes out. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by M. S. TUNSTALL
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