Towns, cities, and counties all come in for some scathing criticism in this bad-tempered and thoroughly entertaining journey around the British Isles (or, as the Irish insist on calling them,
the Hibernian Archipelago). Go from the nauseatingly Nordic Shetlands to the suspiciously Froggy Channel Islands, to the “heaving Sodom of the south coast” (Brighton). And it’s not just the
places that come in for a hammering—it’s the people too! More than 1,000 quotations are collated and arranged by place, taken from a diverse range of sources, including many shockingly
unreserved football chants, all for your perverse pleasure!
