A Farewell to Calm
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A Farewell to Calm

The New Normal Survival Guide

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eBook - ePub

A Farewell to Calm

The New Normal Survival Guide

About this book

**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**

Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.

Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour.

In A Farewell to Calm, Crace introduces an infectiously funny selection of his finest pieces from 2020-21, taking in everything from a summer of unfathomable U-turns to Christmas Covid confusion, and from lockdown-lifting to Brexit blithering.

Led by Boris's poundshop Churchill tribute act, and featuring a cast of everyone's least favourite pantomime villains, from Classic Dom Cummings to Door Matt Hancock, the end result is a brilliantly entertaining chronicle of another tumultuous year on these benighted islands.

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Information

Publisher
Guardian Faber Publishing
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781783352456
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Landing Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 31 January 2020: Boris Johnson goes missing in action on his big Brexit day
  7. 13 February 2020: Javid’s self-worth wasn’t part of the plan for Cummi— sorry, Johnson
  8. 24 February 2020: Priti Patel’s ineptitude is exactly what Boris admires in her
  9. 3 March 2020: Boris fails to convince with sanitised take on coronavirus
  10. 5 March 2020: As Chris Whitty provides a dose of reality, Boris is just an annoying distraction
  11. 11 March 2020: Sunak’s wholesale spaffing sends Tories into rapture
  12. 23 March 2020: Boris Johnson unveils the lockdown that isn’t quite a lockdown
  13. 5 April 2020: Queen praises the people, if not the government, and pulls off a tough gig
  14. 6 April 2020: Ruffled Raab gives little clue of true state of prime minister’s health
  15. 7 April 2020: Leadership, Jim, but not as we know it with Captain Raab on bridge
  16. 15 April 2020: Hancock’s shiny badge? Emblem of a scamper into Tigger mode
  17. 27 April 2020: A deflated Johnson struggles to muster his usual ebullience
  18. 30 April 2020: Breathless Boris is left floundering as he faces foe he can’t outbluster
  19. 11 May 2020: Smart suit, brushed hair. It was just Boris Johnson’s speech that was a mess
  20. 13 May 2020: Boris Johnson resorts to bluster under Starmer’s cross-examination
  21. 24 May 2020: No dignity, no future: Boris forsakes leadership to protect Cummings
  22. 25 May 2020: Regrets? St Dom had a few, but then again, too few to mention
  23. 27 May 2020: Floundering Boris leaves no doubt: our PM is a showman out of his depth
  24. 28 May 2020: Boris Johnson sacrifices top scientific advisers on altar of Classic Dom
  25. 3 June 2020: No hiding place for Boris at PMQs
  26. 4 June 2020: Fall guy Shapps takes turn to promote UK as ‘world-beater’ in stupidity
  27. 9 June 2020: Williamson can hardly fiddle the science when he can’t count to two
  28. 16 June 2020: Johnson’s global Britain fantasies offer little distraction from school meals own goal
  29. 18 June 2020: UK ministers show how ‘world-beating’ they are all over again
  30. 23 June 2020: Trust me, I’m Mr Fun: Boris Johnson loosens England’s lockdown
  31. 24 June 2020: Boris, the narcissists’ narcissist, flails wildly as PMQs exposes cracks
  32. 1 July 2020: Boz the Bluster gets hammered in PMQs ‘whack-a-mole’
  33. 14 July 2020: Mattbeth fails to mask government’s latest U-turn on Covid face coverings
  34. 15 July 2020: Like a borderline sociopath, Johnson again misjudges the mood of the chamber
  35. 16 July 2020: Tired of being Boris Johnson’s patsy, Patrick Vallance fights back
  36. 25 July 2020: Shapps feels the pain in Spain on holiday from hell
  37. 5 August 2020: Just another quiet day in the home office of dedicated contact tracers
  38. 26 August 2020: It’s a dog’s breakfast for Gavin Williamson and his owner
  39. 2 September 2020: Boris left flailing as his limitations become clear for all to see
  40. 8 September 2020: Brandon Lewis breaks cardinal law for MPs and tells the half-truth
  41. 14 September 2020: Ed Miliband revels in making Boris Johnson look like a second-rate con man
  42. 22 September 2020: In 1940, we had Churchill; in 2020, we have Johnson’s poundshop imitation
  43. 12 October 2020: Boris Johnson’s latest Covid strategy: no hope and no end in sight
  44. 21 October 2020: Boris falls into Keir’s tiers trap and goes full delusional over TfL
  45. 2 November 2020: Subdued Johnson just a piece of flotsam being buffeted around
  46. 9 November 2020: PM channels his inner John Wayne in vaccine metaphor meltdown
  47. 23 November 2020: Tiers of a clown as Boris Johnson’s video link falls down
  48. 1 December 2020: Major Sulk enters his darkest hour as rank and file desert him
  49. 3 December 2020: Man-child Gavin Williamson plumbs new depths of stupidity
  50. 10 December 2020: Mordaunt goes through the looking-glass and down a rabbit hole
  51. 30 December 2020: On Boris’s big day, Tories kid themselves this is the deal they always wanted
  52. 4 January 2021: To predict government policy, listen to Boris and wait for the opposite
  53. 13 January 2021: Boris Johnson: a defensive man with much to be defensive about
  54. 25 January 2021: Thérèse Coffey’s Zoom walkout leaves even Piers Morgan lost for words
  55. 28 January 2021: Boris Johnson’s Scotland trip proves essential to nobody
  56. 11 February 2021: You can’t fault Matt Hancock’s work ethic – just everything else
  57. 22 February 2021: A year too late, Boris Johnson produces a reasonable plan
  58. 10 March 2021: Untouchable Boris? Bluster-busting Starmer could well put him on the back foot again
  59. 25 March 2021: Tory milkman delivers speech surreal even by Commons standards
  60. 28 April 2021: Primal rage at PMQs as Boris the joker is unmasked
  61. 4 May 2021: If Starmer wants to win Hartlepool, polls suggest he should stop visiting
  62. 7 May 2021: So who are you again? Boris Johnson meets the new MP for Hartlepool
  63. 10 May 2021: No boasting, no gloating, Boris somehow remains on topic
  64. 25 May 2021: As Hancock ‘throws a sickie’, Zahawi suffers a dose of the hotspots
  65. 26 May 2021: Dominic Cummings stars in his own jaw-dropping, grubby, delusional miniseries
  66. 9 June 2021: Blushing bridegroom Boris Johnson is not wedded to reality
  67. 14 June 2021: Johnson maxes out his credit with Tory MPs: ‘It’s 19 July, and I really mean it this time’
  68. About the Author
  69. By the Same Author
  70. Copyright