Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly
By (Author) John Crace
Guardian Faber Publishing
Guardian Faber Publishing
23rd January 2024
2nd November 2023
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Political leaders and leadership
Gift books
941.0860207
Hardback
352
Width 135mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
432g
From bestselling author John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagined a clusterf*ck on this scale. Given the state of the country right now, he would be in need of a long lie down.Another month, another prime minister - how many have we been through now But fear not: despite all the nonsense that has spewed forth from Westminster over the past two years, John Crace's brilliantly lacerating political sketches have provided the nation with some desperately needed relief.Taking in everything from Partygate, BoJo's drawn-out farewell and the disastrous reign of Liz Truss, to thepsychodrama of the Tory leadership contest(s), the return of Rishi Sunak and the shenanigans of his impressively inept colleagues, Depraved New World is a worryingly funny collection which captures British politics at its most absurd.
John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and the author of several books, most recently including A Farewell to Calm, Decline and Fail, and I, Maybot. @johncrace