by Rod Liddle
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Reviewed by Kevin Scott
The latest book by caustic newspaper columnist, Rod Liddle, who also writes for the Spectator magazine, called Selfish, Whining Monkeys (subtitled: 'How we ended up greedy, narcissistic and unhappy') is an entertaining read for all those who want an offbeat (and sweary) alternative to the politically correct, sterile left-liberalism that currently dominates modern British political and social life.
Liddle, who previously worked for the Labour party and the BBC, intertwines autobiographical reminiscences with pointed observations about the unravelling of British society since the Second World War, some of them amusing, others quite touching, particularly about his parents, and laments the decline of the working class, blaming, among others things, mass immigration, Mrs Thatcher, the Frankfurt School, and left-liberal elites (of all political parties and none!), most of them public-schooled educated and predominant across society, particularly in the legal system, media and politics, for the current abyss.
