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What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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June 2016: Nigel Farage is about to achieve everything he wants. That alone should make leavers think again. An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn't come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde's hilarious writing . . . But behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation and intelligence. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the it's a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth.' Much as it will be a useful piece of social and political history, it’s the bantz that you come to Ms H for and she remains reliably on point, whether coining the word wallygarchy to describe Johnson’s gift of a knighthood to the spectacularly useless and unpleasant Gavin Williamson, or the description of Andrea Leadsom’s terrifying smile - “it’ll come after you, that smile”. Marina somehow frequently nails what it is we find so unlikeable/despicable/sinister about certain public figures.

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A full state banquet of crazy: Marina Hyde’s Guardian column has been a reliable place to turn to for comic relief when the grotesque incompetence, chaos, sleaze and lies of our betters threaten to overwhelm. Arguably, a collection of journalistic hot takes on an unusually turbulent period in our history - this volume starts in 2019 and ends in the defenestration of Johnson - runs the risk of seeming horribly dated but we need this as a reminder, and a laugh out loud one at that, of all that has happened. Due to high demand, this event has changed venues and will now take place at the Assembly Roxy. We are planning for there to be a book signing following the conversation. An infinite number of gag-writers, working all day in a gag factory, couldn’t come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde’s hilarious writing…but behind the wit lurks real anger, argument, exasperation and intelligence. Her writing is more than a gentle poke in the ribs: it’s a well-wrought and deftly aimed smash in the teeth’ – Armando IannucciOur servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown If you're coming to Coles by car, why not take advantage of the 2 hours free parking at Sainsbury's Pioneer Square - just follow the signs for Pioneer Square as you drive into Bicester and park in the multi-storey car park above the supermarket. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. You don't need to shop in Sainsbury's to get the free parking! Where to Find Us If there could possibly be said to be a silver lining to the shit-shroud we’ve all had to wear over the past six years (Hyde’s book begins in 2016), it is the fact that desperate times make for extremely funny journalism. And as the many national crises deepen, and the situation worsens, and the Great British Car Crash becomes a six-lane pile-up, so Hyde’s imagination runs riot, her writing becomes wilder and more fantastic. Righteously angry, too.

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It occurs to me that Marina Hyde may not be a real person at all, but a kind of famished waif, with clinical vampirism who is kept in big dark glass cage somewhere in the recesses of the Guardian newspaper and just let loose at feeding time. Some of it is funny, some of it is painfully skewering, some of it is insightful, etc. If you're a fan of essay collections this might be a fun read. If you're someone who reads Hyde regularly or are looking for new material from here, this probably isn't the book for you and would be skippable.

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