Everyone has a call-centre story or some nightmare encounter at the hands of 'customer services' to relate. The Little Big Black Book of Red Tape is a kind of compendium of such stories, a sort of almanac of the bullshit of the modern world, and a catalogue of individual heroic battles against the corporate state. It features the Derby householder who is selling off minute plots of his back garden to well wishers around the world for 1 each to prevent the council putting a bypass through it; the Shropshire bus service that doesn't stop as 'stopping disrupts the timetable'; and the hospital recently fined 2.5 million for using 'spare capacity' to treat patients quickly.
The Little Black Book Of Red Tape: Great British Bureaucracy
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"with a deft turn of phrase and an astutue eye for the ridiculous, Vince and his correspondents expose this petty officialdom in all its infuriating, and often hilarious, glory" (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS )
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Ian Vince is the author of Britain: What a State and The Myway Code. He's been a contributing editor to the Idler and has written for Bremner Bird and Fortune and Radio 4 comedy shows.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Kit Tat
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I agree with other reviewer it's not a great read. Many of the anecdotes I had heard over the years, disappointing.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Picking up this book in the bookshop, I assumed it would be a selection of amusing red tape anecdotes. After all, part of the title is "Tales of Red Tape and Jobsworths".
However it isn't. The author has essentially written a short history about red tape, and whilst that may be of interest, it does not do what it says on the tin! There are of course some tales, but they are all too infrequent, and I found myself skimming some passages to get to the good bits.
However it isn't. The author has essentially written a short history about red tape, and whilst that may be of interest, it does not do what it says on the tin! There are of course some tales, but they are all too infrequent, and I found myself skimming some passages to get to the good bits.
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