Hatchet jobs of the month

Book reviewers are, on the whole, a polite bunch, and rarely say what they really think. Instead they use a clever code, whereby “her most experimental novel yet” means “an utter mess”, “exhaustive and scholarly” = “I fell asleep”, “draws heavily on previous studies” = “the scoundrel has copied and pasted his entire book”, and so on.
    
Occasionally, however, a critic will lose it, and bludgeon their victim so violently they can only be identified by dental records. We love it when this happens, which is why we’ve rounded up this month’s best hatchet jobs:

Rod Liddle (Sunday Times) on Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones:

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Ross Clark

What was Badenoch hoping to achieve with her attack on Farage?

“The author, an Oxford graduate from Stockport, has based it upon this demonstrably false premise, that working-class equals chav. And that, further to this, the deployment of the word “chav” is part of a conspiracy by the ruling class and especially the Tories to keep the lower orders in their place … Yes, this is a book written by the bastard offspring of Private Eye’s Dave Spart and Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole, a sustained rant devoid of nuance and wit, one part Socialist Worker editorial and one part undergrad history essay.”