This is an incredibly funny and scary and brilliant book. It's not going to please people with certain politics, but for those whose politics is even centre-ground, Marina Hyde's pithy way with words will have you laughing out loud. She grounds you. She gets to the core of an issue, peeling away all the rubbish and says, look at this! Seriously, look at this! Due to high demand, this event has changed venues and will now take place at the Assembly Roxy. We are planning for there to be a book signing following the conversation. Become a Faber Member for free and receive curated book recommendations, special competitions and exclusive discounts. See Faber authors in conversation and hear readings from their work at Faber Members events, literary festivals and at book shops across the UK.

What Just Happened?! by Marina Hyde | Waterstones

I've read Marina Hyde and her columns in The Guardian for its ridiculous skewering of what happens to be going on at the moment:an election, the runup to the Brexit referendum and its aftermath, British political shenanigans, you name it. I don't read all of her columns religiously but do enjoy the commentary, even if I do not always fully understand them as someone who is not British. This is a collection of those columns.Join Hyde as she revisits every moment of magic, from David Cameron to Theresa May to Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak. An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn't come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde's hilarious writing . . . But behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation and intelligence. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the it's a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth.'

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The articles are well-written, but some of them are from quite a long time ago, so I had to keep looking things up to see what was being referred to. Did not finish. In the introduction to the book Marina worries presenting topical news and political newspaper articles won't work years after they were first written. An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn’t come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde’s hilarious writing . . . But behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation and intelligence. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the ribs: it’s a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth.’ Marina Hyde is - hands down - the best columnist working in British journalism today. Not only is she laugh out loud funny, but I end up nodding along with her viewpoint so hard I’m surprised my head hasn’t fallen off. To me she’s up there as a humourist with Clive James and the early columns of Charlie Brooker.Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

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The class system has an inordinate influence on politics in the U.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. Apart from this, my main engagement with U.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.K. I haven't been to', or 'part of the U.K. I love', etc., that in fact, Dublin has been a part of the Republic of Ireland since we won the War of Independence in 1921. However, it has been fascinating to read the take of someone who contends with this system as a voter and journalist, and is also an extremely gifted satirist. Some of it is funny, some of it is painfully skewering, some of it is insightful, etc. If you're a fan of essay collections this might be a fun read. 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. Be it biography, history, nature writing or any other form of true story, non-fiction writing is often loaded with just as much suspense and character as the most exciting novel We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.

Marina Hyde writes for The Guardian newspaper and “What Just Happened” is a collection of her columns from 2016 - 2022, mostly a satirical commentary on British politics but also with sections on other topics including the royal family, sport and celebrities. Each year in politics as its own section (2016: Binfire of the Vanities, 2021: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before) with the other topics interspersed. I thought this was a good way to lay out the book as it broke up the narrative and also provided a bit of light relief. Although that’s not to say that this book was unrelenting doom and gloom - Marina Hyde’s writing is extremely witty and had me laughing out loud a lot of the time. From 1st July 2021, VAT will be applicable to those EU countries where VAT is applied to books - this additional charge will be collected by Fed Ex (or the Royal Mail) at the time of delivery. Shipments to the USA & Canada: It was interesting to see the progression of events, each crazy thing in turn topped by another even crazier thing. But the impact was undermined by knowing what was to come. When I first read those columns they were fresh and incredulous. Reading them again I felt jaded and dispirited, knowing what was to come.