Patronising Bastards: How the Elites Betrayed Britain

by Quentin Letts

Overview

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots.

'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail

'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards will have the lefty-elite running scared' The Sun

Not since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake' have the peasants been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: Brexit, Trump, and maybe more eruptions to follow. But their rulers were so good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables', Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign, Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. Wigged judges stared down their legalistic noses at a surging, pongy populous.

These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways, are the 'Patronising Bastards'. Their downfall is largely of their own making - their Sybaritic excesses, an obsession with political correctness, the prolonged rape of reason and rite. You'll find these self-indulgent show-ponys not just in politics and the cloistered old institutions but also in high fashion, football, among the clean-eating foodies and at the Baftas and Oscars, where celebritydom hires PR smoothies to massage reputations and mislead, distort, twist.

Political columnist and bestselling author Quentin Letts identifies these condescending creeps and their networks, their methods and their dubious morals. Letts kebabs them like mutton. It's baaaahd. It's juicy.

Richard Branson, Emma Thompson, Shami Chakrabarti, Jean-Claude Juncker and any head waiter who calls you 'young man' - this one's for you!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472127341
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	10/12/2017
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Quentin Letts is parliamentary sketch writer and theatre critic for the Daily Mail. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times and gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.
Quentin Letts is political sketch writer for The Times and theatre critic for the Sunday Times. A regular broadcaster on radio and television, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times, gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph and parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Mail. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire.

Table of Contents

Revolution! 1

Independence Dawns 5

Gather! Gather! 10

Snooze Headlines 19

Be Afraid, Children 21

'Ignorant Masses' 25

Beauty Banished 30

Boaty McVolteface 40

Crazy Clothes, Crazy Gal 43

Lording It 52

Cordon Bleuh 71

Hoggs a-Troughin' 82

Tsar Ascendant 90

Harmful Harriet 100

Murray-go-round 109

What Rhymes with 'Schmooze'? 117

What a Gasbag 126

Talk to My People 132

Corporate Balls 139

Please Offend Me 155

Daftmanship 159

Peak Arrogance 167

Dress Code: Haloes 174

Shennan D'oh 182

Elders Whine 195

Poop-poop! 204

Foundation Coarse 212

Dismal Dons 221

Gimme Gimme 234

Wolff at the Door 241

What a Comedian 252

We, the Undersigned Snoots … 257

No Conferring, Please 268

Ivan Off 276

The Tut-Tut Brigade 286

Court at It 293

While watching wagtails 301

Top 100 Patronising Bastards 303

Editorial Reviews

Excellent . . . funny, enjoyable and timely—Choice

Hilarious—Daily Mail

An important social text . . . beautifully written - but do not be fooled by its humorous tone. Patronising Bastards makes some serious political points—Peter Oborne, Daily Mail

The political columnist at his lacerating best—Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph

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