Wow!
This is 175 pages of compulsive, explosive reading. You can't put it down.
The great Czech writer Milan Kundera (whose books you can also buy from Amazon) said:
'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.'
This book will help you to remember the verbal chicanery that Boris and his ministers have been using during the Covid response, BREXIT and in previous careers - just in case you have turned off recently.
Our prime minister appears to have told a lot of porkies, although Oborne reassures us that there are too many for a book this size, and maybe any book.
Oborne still has a dig at the Left (thus asserting his traditional Tory values) and gets all misty eyed about past Tory Governments; he revisits very briefly what he wrote about Blair. However he mostly spends his time diligently exposing the lack of the value in truth our current Government displays so casually. Oborne is also very fair - he even points out where Boris has been less than truthful about Corbyn of all people.
My only criticism of the book is when Oborne tries to lump Johnson and Trump together - he sort of loses the thread of this tack and does not quite carry it off for me.
Wow#2!! Oborne is that rare commodity - a thoroughly decent Tory chap! Bask in his warm glow I say - there's not many of his type left.
However, the most damning part of the book comes in towards the end. It is the abject failure of our institutions and checks and balances (the Nolan Committee standards, rules for Civil Servants and MPs, and Parliament itself) that seem to be mute about the inveterate fibbing that has been going on. This is the most chilling and troubling aspect of all that Oborne highlights. It has huge repercussions for the country and its future. Oborne calls this a 'moral emergency'.
And Oborne is brave and right to point this out. Who controls a Government when it gets out of hand or refuses to bow to scrutiny? What recourse do we have? That is the big question at the end of this book. And its a huge one for such a small book.
Highly Recommended.
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Be very afraid!
Scary but highly accurate account of the destruction of Britain by a government of serial liars, with the collusion of an unprincipled right-wing press. Every assertion is meticulously supported by footnotes (nearly as many footnotes as text). Short but very worrying read.
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Delta D.
A distressing story told distressingly badly.
Reviewed in the United States on 24 April 2021
