Stop Bloody Bossing Me About: How We Need To Stop Being Told What To Do

I’m with Quentin 100%. Our self appointed “betters” lecture, bully and browbeat us into compliance with countless futile rules in everyday life and we’ve had enough of it. Did minorities really spend their time taking offence before their self appointed guardians made it their business to point out every possible slight ready to be burnished into a grievance? How did we capitulate to the health and safety terrors? And now we’ve had COVID-19 to contend with. Quentin bursts the bubble of those who seek to boss us about. Enough. Let’s (Letts?) take back control.

This book is an easy and enjoyable read which hits the nail on the head on so many galling aspects of modern life. Quentin Letts favours no particular side in politics and lambasts all with admirably equal vigour. Not only politicians of course, so many creeping controls emanate from endless ‘authorities’ producing an ever-growing stream of regulations, controls and insidious and invidious strictures, that Mr Letts lets fly at everyone from the Church to Health and Safety with commendable asperity. Would that his book might make ‘authority’ think and ameliorate but though I fear not, it could trigger some sort of backlash against being buried in bureaucracy.

Down with the bossocrats! That's what we all need to say after a year of being bullied and bossed around by politicians and even rioters. They had no right to do any of it, and in the long run did more harm than good.I've been waiting all year for this outspoken rant against the sanctimonious bullies who have taken over our society in the past few years and especially during the China virus hysteria.Quentin Letts has written a vigorous and witty book which punctures the pompous preaching of the zealots who have been telling us what to do.Letts writes a light yet pointed expose of the hypocrisy of those who seek to rule us like Mogol despots. It's not a call to anarchy, but a call to be left alone to live our lives with decency and common sense. That is the British way after all and far too many people have been bowing and conforming to bossing and bullying and it is demeaning .Get a backbone my friends and wake up or we are going to end up in the same place as people in China who are being bossed around and prevented from getting decent accommodation and jobs if they don't conform to what the CCP bully boys in charge with their Social Credit system think they should do. Don't let them drive us down that road, that is the message Letts gives to us.

This book is written as a series of short articles covering a plethora of current issues arising from the Covid 19 pandemic and Brexit. It had me laughing out loud on several occasions. If you voted Leave and hate wearing a mask you'll love it. If you voted remain and are really enjoying lockdown, why not try finding out what those who don't follow you on twitter think.

I borrowed this book from an acquaintance who thought I’d like it. Goodness knows what this says about me, but I hope I don’t end up like Mr. Letts.The book’s main point is the bossiness that has been so prevalent in the last 12 months about various current societal realities that we we’ve all had to live with. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of the pandemic that it has bred books like this. We all have our own opinions on lockdown etc, and Mr. Letts wants to share his, don’t doubt that.Everyone and everything gets a bashing along the way. A few sample chapter titles should give you a taste of the content of this book-“Mask Nazis”, “Harry-Kiri” and “They’ve Got an A-Gender”.The main problem with this book is our Quentin doesn’t know when to stop, bless him. Everything is a problem to Letts, to such an extent that you eventually want to tell him to shut up even if you agreed with him at the start of the book. My opinions on some of the subjects he covers did tally occasionally with his whilst reading but I was suffering from a case of diatribe-overload by the end.This book is not remotely likely to change anything about our restrictive society, but will instead be dismissed as just another Daily Mailesque rant by a middle-aged white man. In short, it’s a qualified shame that this book needs to exist, but sadder still that it should exist in this form.

Quentin Letts is a witty journalist who holds strong opinions. If you've bought this book it's probably because you don't like bossiness in modern world - which is why we did. Providing you agree with what he says, you'll find the book amusing, which we did in part. You'll possibly like his criticism of the Church for insisting that even those volunteers of long standing have to attend 'safeguarding training' or resign - and especially his description of the ex police officer running the course saying that everybody must be treated as a suspected child molester - as he says, the world gone mad. On the other hand, like us, you might consider his ranting about Covid restrictions greatly over done. It all depends on your opinions.

Starts well but fades. My preferred route would have been to start with a focus on the idiots currently in control, from the Head Boy down through his dweedling sycophants and onto Witless and Unbalanced et al, run a few asides (e.g. 'elf'n'safety etc) and build to a crescendo that carved into the abovementioned shovellers of totalitarian diktat before demanding their heads.....

The Times' acerbic sketch writer skewers the liberal elite, the finger-waggers, the bossocracy and the woke who are making all of our lives such a misery. Anyone who follows Quentin Letts will know that no one does this better than him.The book is far more than just a rant, because Letts marshals his facts before firing off a fusillade. And sometimes he simply allows his victims to speak in their own words, revealing the confused twaddle in all its sick-bag glory. Quite why, or how, we have allowed these people with their sadly misplaced sense of superiority to assume such control over the national discourse is a rather frightening mystery.This is a short book, and can be read in a few hours. Nonetheless, anyone with high blood pressure is advised to take it in small doses.