Richard Littlejohn is one of Britain's most popular newspaper columnists. This title is a collection of his pieces that fires a broadside at Tony Blair's Britain and the absurdity of petty bureaucracy.

Richard Littlejohn delivers the coup de grace to New Labour. He is not only tough on Brown, but also takes a witty look at 'elf and safety', 'yuman rights', the surveillance society and all the bureacratic absurdities that make modern life worse than anything George Orwell ever imagined."

One of Britain's most successful, controversial columnists looks back on his childhood and how we got from there to here.
Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford, Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century, it was another country. Wartime rationing was still in force. Children who grew up in the fifties and sixties ran free and wild. They were always outdoors and played in cornfields, on building sites and in air raid shelters. There was no suffocating elf'n'safety culture, no computer games and no-one suffered from now-fashionable food allergies. Instead of the internet, there were...