What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the it's a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth. a collection of newspaper columns that functions as a phantasmagoric running commentary on our whiplash lives and times.

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Shining her invective on the period since the Brexit vote, since when this country has been trapped in ever increasing waves of incompetence and calamity. In fact, I think I’ll seek out her columns in her newspaper which has free online availability, as I’m on the same page as her regarding our mutual dislike of the current crop of politicians, and not all of them being on the Right of the political spectrum either. Personally, I had forgotten much of the content, so it was like coming to it new, but I gave up halfway through because I'm trying to forget that those three events ever happened.On a small feed day, its the kittens - usually little celebrities, outré or struggling in someway, with some dubious claim to plausibility or fame, tottering on their high heels these (often) silly girls are delivered though the hatch to the famished she-wolf of the Guardian newspaper. She suspects him of trying to evade detection by metamorphosing into his dog, Dilyn, which starts to perform frottage on the lower legs of random passersby. who declines to accept that the public finances would be in rather better state if people like them contributed their fair share. And boggle at the cast of characters: Hollywood sex offenders, populists, sporting heroes (and villains), dastardly dukes, media barons, movie stars, reality TV monsters, billionaires, police officers, various princes and princesses, wicked advisers, philanthropists, fauxlanthropists, telly chefs, and (naturally) Gwyneth Paltrow. June 2016: As for Boris, never forget that the only untruth the prime ministerial favourite-in-waiting corrected in the entire campaign was the Sunday Times misapprehension that he dyed his hair.

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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. It occurs to me that Marina Hyde may not be a real person at all, but a kind of famished waif, with clinical vampirism who is kept in big dark glass cage somewhere in the recesses of the Guardian newspaper and just let loose at feeding time.Her columns from 2019 on the last days of Theresa May and the rise of Boris Johnson must be the most hilarious sustained flood of personal abuse ever put into print.

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The cover of the book is brilliant, in that it illustrates how many decent folk have been feeling over the last number of years. If you've not read them before, and can cope with revisiting topics including Boris Johnson, Brexit and Covid so soon after the events, then the writing is first class.By doing so she provides a much-needed voice for the frustration felt by many of us in Britain about just how increasingly morally bankrupt and self-serving much of our political leadership has become over the past few years. For one thing, somebody’s got to fact check Matt Wankcock who is busily revisionising history so as not to have to accept blame for the multiple failures of his during the pandemic.