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You Couldn't Make it Up (Paperback)

by Richard Littlejohn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin; New edition edition (28 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074931978X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749319786
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 18.5 x 12.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 186,706 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lambasting all sections of politics and society, the Daily Mail's controversial columnist, Richard Littlejohn, offers a selection of barbed and politically-incorrect articles.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ranting, 10 Jun 2004
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This review is from: You Couldn't Make it Up (Hardcover)
A tedious ranting bore of a book that hysterically tries to pin the 'decline' of Britain on any number of minority groups. Readers of this book, will themselves, find themselves in a minority.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thatcher/Major era - interesting to compare with Bliar era, 11 Feb 2007
This review is from: You Couldn't Make it Up (Hardcover)
Collection of about 60 pieces of different lengths; dating roughly from the era when the Tories were regarded as 'sleazy' usually in the sex sense ('family values' joke, Mellor &c), and corrupt in the money sense- MP company interests, monopolist utility companies with billion profits, share options, ministers taking jobs in ex-public companies they'd invented. Fascinating to compare with today's situation though the wars today compared with those around USSR breakup seem larger and perhaps worse.

There's material on Europe, including ex chancellor Lamont saying there was no benefit whatever to Britain that he knew of.

Also perhaps especially pieces on the genesis of social engineering frauds - he mentions eg Rowntree foundation reports and has several pieces (p83 on inventing conferences and syndromes, p93 inventing a new pressure group, p187 on lawyer-driven litigation, p125 one parent families, etc.)

In some sense he's a bit naive - remember the dead 'defence' MP with a satsuma in his mouth? - Littlejohn doesn't realise the trappings were probably a distraction. (This trait continues today - he's naive about Jewish influences for example. He has no sense of huge military interests. He accepts the 9/11 story at face value. Etc.).

All the material is unsourced - which of course is typical of the entire media spectrum, so one can't be too harsh. But some of the one-legged lesbian collective stories of this era were, apparently, made up.

However as part of the momentum which eventually led to Bliar being elected - and will analogously no doubt result in Labour being removed - it's a fascinating though rather depressing collection. He does have a collection of traditional beliefs, on, say WW2 but not WW1; and top atrocities of all time; but these are so common that criticism is on another plane. Whatever you are told these are not 'rants'.

Rae West
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