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May 23, 2008
Friday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Johnathan Pearce (London)  Book reviews • Slogans/quotations

In Third Way Britain both the bureaucrats and the nosey neighbours get to spy on you sunbathing nude in your garden.

- A line from a gloriously rude review of an absurd book by our soon-to-be former Prime Minister.

Comments

Glorious indeed :)


Posted by Ian B at May 23, 2008 01:17 PM

This kind of book has me asking the "Rod Stewart Album Question"- who the hell would actually buy this thing?


Posted by Ian B at May 23, 2008 01:58 PM

I don't know who would buy it, either, but the publishers must be fairly confident they'll shift a few copies.


Posted by Robert Hale at May 23, 2008 03:22 PM

I can't help but feel that the majority of the market for this literary turd will be libraries (public and academic) and thus paid for out of public funds. Other than Polly's copy of course, which she'll pay for out of a BBC fee.


Posted by Ian B at May 23, 2008 03:32 PM

Oh come on Ian,
She'll get an autographed one for free.

You should see the freebee shit that gets shovelled my way of a week.

The least she deserves for doing an Agatha Christie on every dodgy set of Govt statistics from education to the NHS she gets given.


Posted by RAB at May 23, 2008 05:49 PM

The alarming part is that Gordon Brown (the reincarnation of Stafford Cripps) actually believes all this. He really means what he says.

He is, of course, not sane.


Posted by Brian at May 23, 2008 05:54 PM

The "Third Way" sounds very much like Fascism.


Posted by Ron Brick at May 23, 2008 08:38 PM

It is.


Posted by Ian B at May 24, 2008 12:45 AM

So why can't they get the trains to run on time?


Posted by Ron Brick at May 25, 2008 02:28 PM
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