Simon Heffer

Fair is foul

By the time one has waded to page 22 of Them and Us, through what may most politely be described as a stream of consciousness, assailed by random thoughts and plangent expression larded with clichés, one starts to wonder what the point is in going on.

  • Them and Us: Politics, Greed ad Inequality

    Will Hutton

    Little Brown, pp. 448

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