James is a superb radio talk show host on LBC. He’s perceptive and insightful and listens to people who are uninformed in comparison to him. Although he’s combative he is prepared to discuss issues. A star no less.

His book is a polemic against people who have wrecked Britain. This was done through stupidity and naked careerism. His ten ‘case’ studies include journalists – editors and owners – ‘Think Tanks’, and gruesome politicians. They all share a philosophy which is alien to the majority of British people. Nonetheless they’re able to sell their opinions as though they are mainstream because they control the media.

Ideologically driven people will do anything. These ten are a bourgeois version of the Taliban. For them failure isn’t evidence of wrongheadedness it’s evidence that they should try harder. Failure spurs them on to frenzied actions. The culmination of this is the short unpleasant career of Liz Truss. Notwithstanding her catastrophic failure as prime minister she’s convinced she is right and the world is wrong. Frighteningly the Truss economic model wasn’t radical by the standards of right-wing zealots she mixes with.

Try this

“Nigel Farage tweeted: ‘Today was the best Conservative budget since 1986.’” p345

For everyone interested in politics this is a must read.