Unhinged: Life Lessons from Boris Johnson
By (Author) Ian Martin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
4th February 2025
Unabridged edition
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Biography: historical, political and military
941.0861092
Hardback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
The perfect parody Christmas gift book for that selfish egomaniac in your life. Love him or (let's face it, more likely) loathe him, Boris Johnson has been a towering figure for decades in the worlds of politics, journalism and personal scandal. Somehow he always bounces back. How does he do it And how might we mere mortals elevate our piffling lives to greatness Unhinged: Life Lessons from Boris Johnson is a guide to how the man has conducted his life, and how we can take useful guidance to enhance our own. How to trivialise everything with buffoonery, for example. How to make rich and influential friends. How to smash everything to pieces and then try to fix it and then smash it again and again. The book will concentrate on the really good stuff and simply ignore the rest, like a discarded girlfriend. Comedy writer Ian Martin (The Thick of It, Veep) offers readers a re-assessment of Boris Johnson, who has so much to teach us. Published as a parody companion volume to Johnson's own extremely honest account of the last few years, Unhinged: Life Lessons from Boris Johnson is full of inspiring stories from his illustrious career. Here are easy-to-recreate social gambits, life rules and some great excuses that'll get you out of all sorts of tricky situations. Lets all pay him the respect he deserves. Let our motto be: Be More Boris!
Ian is an Emmy and WGA award winning writer. He was nominated for two BAFTAs and won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for co-writing the feature film The Death of Stalin for Armando Iannucci. The film opened TIFF and was a Spotlight film at Sundance and a huge success at the box office. Ian also won an Emmy and two WGA awards for his writing on Armando Iannucci's Veep where he wrote across 5 series. He was also a core member of all series of the BAFTA winning comedy series The Thick of It (and was the "swearing consultant" as well!), and wrote additional material on feature film In the Loop. He also wrote across the first and second series of Avenue 5 for HBO.