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How They Broke Britain
JAMES O’BRIEN
(W.H. ALLEN, 384 PP, £20)
Tablet bookshop price £18 • Tel 020 7799 4064

This book is a sustained tirade against a succession of individuals whom James O’Brien regards as having been responsible – in some cases by mistake or casual neglect, in others by malign intent – for what he regards as “acts of national self-sabotage”. His theme is that these highly undesirable individuals (principally, though not exclusively, Murdoch, Dacre, Neil, Elliott, Farage, Cameron, Corbyn, Cummings, Johnson and Truss) have “set the United Kingdom on a course of unnecessary domestic decline and international diminishment”.