Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Simon Kuper, Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicans Broke our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

 An entirely unsurprising polemic. So unsurprising it got me wondering why it was written in such a revelatory fashion when all of these facts were known. An astonishing quote from Alastair Campbell on the blurb, 'I got angrier and angrier and angrier and angrier as I read it'. As if Campbell of all people didn't know exactly what was going on, he was at the heart of it. It makes him sound like Captain Renault in Casblanca claiming to be shocked at gambling occurring as he collects his winnings. Read this while very very ill with a sickness bug. I'm over it now, but Helen and William have gone down with it. Hopefully all better soon.

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