Fifty People Who Buggered Up Britain, by Quentin Letts
As readers of the Daily Mail know, Quentin Letts leaves no turn unstoned. His withering parliamentary sketches have left the blood of wounded politicians over the walls of Westminster. Wearing his theatre critic’s hat, he swims against the prevailing tides to tease dramatists and directors, and for good measure he is the ventriloquist who pulls the strings of the choleric Clement Crabbe.
Nobody is better equipped to nominate the 50 people who have damaged this country most grievously in the past five decades, and he discharges his duty with flair and tracer precision. There are obvious targets, and six prime ministers (including Margaret Thatcher) are duly called to account; but the joy lies mainly in reading about the less likely selections, from Jeffrey Archer to Tim Westwood, whose buggering-up could be termed cultural.
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