How they broke Britain

O’Brien is the nearest thing the UK has to a left-of-centre shock-jock, and in this relentlessly strident polemic, he stands against the wall, a whole range of those he blames for our decline …and fires. Apart from Rupert Murdoch and the lies O’Brien thinks he’s published, he targets Paul Dacre (Daily Mail), Matthew Elliot (Taxpayers Alliance etc), Nigel Farage, Dominic Cummings, Liz Truss and inevitably, Boris Johnson. Corbyn, Cameron, and even Andrew Neil (The Spectator

etc) are there too but his main analysis is how disastrous BREXIT has been and how this rogues-gallery of apologists and a compromised BBC still camouflage its impact. Sunak, and anyone that follows has merely inherited a massively weakened country, systematically shorn of its values and judgement. It’s a good, if depressing read, and not really recommended for enthusiastic supporters of any of the above. For a critical insight into the manipulations of the right in British politics, however, it may be one of the best books in recent years.