4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the exciting book club sequel that I know that you've all been waiting for. |
0:05.4 | That's right. We have returned to the land of James O'Gammon, and for this have gone back to his |
0:11.5 | 2018 bestseller, How to Be Right. You might have seen this in W.H. Smith and Waterstones |
0:17.4 | all across the country. You might have seen your nan reading this, |
0:21.2 | your middle-class Lib Dem voting auntie, who's childless, but has lots of cats. She definitely |
0:27.5 | loves this book. And I thought it'd be interesting to go back through this, examine his |
0:32.4 | thoughts, examine how you can be right. And then also, after this, we'll probably also cover his sequel book |
0:38.8 | to this How Not to Be Wrong. |
0:40.5 | James O'Brien. |
0:42.2 | It's genuinely like some sort of... |
0:44.1 | He's a very humble man. |
0:46.0 | It's like some sort of Mitchell and Webb parody. |
0:49.1 | Like, you know, his book, How to Be Right. |
0:50.5 | And then his other book, How Not to Be Wrong. |
0:52.2 | It just sounds like early 2000s. |
0:53.5 | How to be right. And then his other book, How Not to Be Wrong. It just sounds like early 2000s. How to be modest. He is the government mouthpiece right now for LBC saying, well, you know, |
1:01.2 | when the government says, have we tried destroying British farming? Have we tried killing all of the |
1:05.4 | poor? James O'Brien is the man who comes out and defends all of that. And he tells you how to do that |
1:10.0 | in this book. And this is an |
1:11.3 | interesting one because I thought how to be right. He's not actually going to try and sell it to you |
1:17.6 | as a guidebook on how to be right. But he does. He does. It's an actual book that he thinks tells you |
1:24.1 | how to be right. But translating to normal person, what this means is this is a |
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