Marina Hyde has worked at the Guardian since 2000, where her weekly columns have won her a reputation as one of the most admired journalists in the UK. K. The state of affairs in which the vast majority of PMs (including Labour Party ones) have gone to Eton, then Oxford, is bizarre in the extreme to the rest of the world, but seems to be universally seen as OK across the pond.

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I often find myself re-reading paragraphs in wonder - thinking how cleverly they have been constructed, so sharply cutting through to the point at hand. She also has no qualms about commenting on Boris Johnson's prolific activities in relation to women (and offspring) either. Normally I would rate something like this 3 stars, but Marina is so incredibly funny, and witty, and on point, that I have to bump it up. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the ribs: it’s a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth.K. politics has been the several occasions when I've had to explain to people when they refer to my home city of Dublin as being 'part of the U.

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At one point in this collection of her Guardian columns, Marina Hyde devises a little allegorical tableau in which Chris Grayling pummels “the pulped corpse of Satire” with a hammer. I also think it requires a certain amount of knowledge and understanding of British politics, as the columns are written as reaction to events rather than describing them. Ultimately, it's hard to see Branson as anything other than the classic 'billionaire philanthropist' (is there any other kind of billionaire? The motivation for doing so was that the columnist is someone I’ve read sometime ago, when I once regularly read English newspapers.If like me you were horrified by the outcome of the 2016 referendum and feel that the country has been on a downward spiral since then, this is the book for you! who declines to accept that the public finances would be in rather better state if people like them contributed their fair share.

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If you're someone who reads Hyde regularly or are looking for new material from here, this probably isn't the book for you and would be skippable. If I had to re-frame it, I'd say 'Many women know they are prey, some are in denial about it, because they're dependent on those with authority for their livelihoods'.Ithu will be an essential reference for me to capture what it felt like and what I was thinking during the time from post 2016 to post pandemic. The material is strongly UK flavoured but includes discussion of political topics and themes that will be familiar and relevant more broadly (the US elections, Covid-19).

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I greatly enjoyed reading the book, partly because I agree with the author’s sentiments, partly for the style of writing and also because it was a sobering reminder of how the country has ended up in its present state.

March 2022: It was reported that Poland had taken 800,000 refugees [from Ukraine], the UK had accepted a mere 50. She gnaws away on the thick hides of big beasts, and has even been know to attempt the indigestible parts, with her teeth, without complaint. Over the six years covered in the book, she repeatedly annihilates Boris Johnson with epithets and aphorisms as her weapons, then kicks his cadaver back to life for further torment. Apart from the kittens, sometimes the poor waif of the Guardian has to really earn her keep, and they throw her in a big beast from the world of politics , he usually comes with horns, hooves and curly tail intact, and she has to tear him apart with her bare hands herself.