Summary

"Quentin Letts's well-sharpened nib makes a compelling case for fifty guilty parties, from spoilt-brat tennis player John McEnroe to TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in aspidistra.

"Quentin Letts's well-sharpened nib makes a compelling case for fifty guilty parties, from spoilt-brat tennis player John McEnroe to TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in aspidistra. Margaret Thatcher terminally ruptured national unity. The creators of EastEnders trashed our brand over high tea. These, Letts argues, are the people who made our country the ugly, ignorant, beer-ridden and brawling bum of the Western world. Here are the fools, knaves and vulgarians who ripped up British honour and glory and set in its place the tawdry and the trite. In half a century we have gone from end of Empire to Hades in a wheelbarrow."--BOOK JACKET.