Synopsis
This is the first selection from the Daily Telegraph's Way of the World column to appear since The Stretchford Chronicles – 25 Years of Peter Simple was widely acclaimed in 1980. All the well-known characters of Peter Simple's fantastic demonology are here again: Mrs Dutt-Pauker, the Hampstead thinker and her ideological family; Dr Spaceley-Trellis, the trend-crazed Bishop of Bevindon; Old Seth Roetgen of the Ohm Farm, Britain's greatest agrotechnological farmer; Dr Heinz Kiosk, the social psychologist, with his unending refrain, 'we are all guilty'; Neville Dreadberg, the 'brilliant' left-wing dramatist, TV personality and self-publicist, and his equally brilliant wife Pippa; Jeremy Cardhouse, the all-purpose MP and chairman of the 'Tories for Progress' group; J Bonington Jagworth, the demented motorist; Clare Howitzer, the feminist 'agony auntie'; King Norman and the Socialist Royal Family of the future; and innumerable others, including the inhabitants of the Stretchford Conurbation: its corrupt councillors, eccentric symphony orchestra, lunatic football managers, professional vandals, chess hooligans, bewildered policemen and violently feuding, handbag-swinging women's fan clubs.
With a mixture of direct comment, invective, satire, humour and surrealist fantasy, Peter Simple reflects in his own inimitable style the varied phenomena of our darkening times.
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