Peter Nunn

What a splendid book this is! I have recommended it to friends and will even pass my copy around to any impecunius enough not to afford to buy it. Some of the subjects were surprising (perhaps Matthew Elliott the most, but he has achieved grandeur, which I suppose was his life objective, since the book was written). Although I thought that I knew enough about Boris Johnson, comment from school teachers was new to me and telling. (What did school teachers think of Farage - or Trump - for that matter?) What I find lacking, now that we know the pantomime villians, is what their objectives were. OK, for Murdoch it's money by any means; mysterious backers of think-tanks must have benefitted personally and financially from Brexit and other plots. Farage? Cummins? I even learned some things about Truss I didn't know before, though her vacuosness must surely have been recognised by the MPs who supported her. Now I find myself apologising to my teen-aged grandchildren for letting them down during my voting lifetime. And we have to get used to an ever-falling standard of living.