Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy

David Mitchell

$17.80

Publication Date: November 12th, 2019

Publisher:

Guardian Faber Publishing

ISBN:

9781783351978

Pages:

336

Description

The Sunday Times bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, which we published back in 2014, must have really made people think. Because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP to Brexit, from horse lasagne to fatbergs, from big society to food banks. The only possible way to cheer up in 2019 is to dive into David Mitchell's terrifically clever and witty analysis of the farce of recent years. Here he takes on the utter nonsense rained down on us from corporate PRs, governments in the thrall of lobbyists, customers being preyed upon by algorithm-wielding corporations, evil interest groups tricking electors with targeted lies, flat-earthers and Eton boys. No other writer is a match for the dumbfounding times we live in.

About the Author

David Mitchell is a comedian, actor, writer and the polysyllabic member of Mitchell and Webb. He won BAFTAs for Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, and has also starred in Jam and Jerusalem, Ambassadors, and as Will Shakespeare in Ben Elton's Upstart Crow, now on its third series. He writes for the Observer, chairs The Unbelievable Truth, is a team captain on Would I Lie To You?, and has been in two films, neither of which made a profit.