Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022

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With over 1000 questions and plenty of gags on everything from politics to pop culture, 'Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022' promises hours of entertainment and will serve as a timeless souvenir of a rollercoaster year. Packed with useless facts and unhelpful cynicism, the Have I Got News for You Guide to Modern Britain will help you understand exactly how the most ingenious, resilient, resourceful and proudest people on earth became the Twittering, touchy-feely, fame-obsessed, flu-fearing wimps that they are today.

WATERSTONES’ BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023: PUZZLES AND HUMOURWhether it was Harry talking about his todger in his controversial autobiography, or celebrities from Gary Lineker to Phillip Schofield and Huw Edwards dominating the news agenda, plus strikes, inflation, wildfires, the Wagner group performing the briefest mutiny of all time, an ill-fated trip to the Titanic, and – as usual – a stack of scandals leaking out of the Cabinet, 2023 has had just as many newsworthy things you’d like to forget as any other year. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. So the Have I Got News For You team have, in a moving and totally out of character display of public-spiritedness, compiled this Guide to Modern Britain to help guide you around, er, modern Britain. It's a Royal Cock-up' and Have I Got News for You regular features: the Missing Words and Odd One Out rounds. Each spread has anniversaries of events such as "Squidgygate" and "Mad Cow Week", with jokes on the facing page which derive from features of the TV programme.At times it made me laugh aloud, and the prose had more than a hint of Ambrose Bierce's mordant wit.

The "Have I Got News for You Guide to Modern Britain" covers these and many other major issues in an entirely non-judgmental, non-PC, non-party-political, non-tax-deductible, non-partisan, non-invasive, non-intrusive, non-comprehensive and non-non-profit-making way. With the same lack of irony, they could equally have have added "Contains no hint of wit, humour or insight". Russia invaded Ukraine, Boris Johnson resigned, the Queen passed the baton to Charles after a 70-year reign, heat records were broken, food and energy bills went through the roof, fading celebrities discovered that libel laws are a great way to generate publicity, Liz Truss spent more money in her first week as PM than anyone since the war, and - as usual - most of the biggest stories broke while HIGNFY was off the air. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels.

With over 1000 questions and plenty of gags on everything from politics to pop culture, ‘Have I Got News For You: The Quiz of 2022’ promises hours of entertainment and will serve as a timeless souvenir of a rollercoaster year. Russia invaded Ukraine, Boris Johnson resigned, the Queen passed the baton to Charles after a 70-year reign, heat records were broken, food and energy bills went through the roof, fading celebrities discovered that libel laws are a great way to generate publicity, Liz Truss spent more money in her first week as PM than anyone since the war, and – as usual – most of the biggest stories broke while HIGNFY was off the air. Biography: Have I Got News For You is a long-running entertainment show starring Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, which delivers comic observations and scripted gags, from the satirical to the surreal, through the highly original mechanism of a quiz about the news. We don't know what's going in the 2023 book yet as the year's not done, and we can't see into the future, either.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023: PUZZLES AND HUMOURWhether it was Harry talking about his todger in his controversial autobiography, or celebrities from Gary Lineker to Phillip Schofield and Huw Edwards dominating the news agenda, plus strikes, inflation, wildfires, the Wagner group performing the briefest mutiny of all time, an ill-fated trip to the Titanic, and - as usual - a stack of scandals leaking out of the Cabinet, 2023 has had just as many newsworthy things you'd like to forget as any other year. The ideal gift to give this Christmas (to someone else or to yourself), this book contains all the fun of being on ‘Have I Got News for You’ without the fear of Ian Hislop pressing you on shady business dealings from 2008.

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