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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Introduction

Why can’t the Tories agree on whether Britain is fucked and broken or not?

Did Sam Cam invent trip-hop?

Cleggmania: what were the highs? what were the lows?

Is there a link between the Big Society and the occult?

Is Cameron just Clarkson’s patsy?

Will they come back for the trees?

Should child cage-fighting be regulated?

What is the sociopolitical significance of Pippa Middleton’s buns?

Is the Coalition the best thing that could have happened for the Tories?

What was the greatest moment of the Coalition negotiations?

If even Mervyn King reckons it’s a stitch-up, isn’t it time to at least examine this theory?

How hard is David Cameron?

Does a Tory health adviser being caught telling private equity to ‘fill yer boots’ slightly give the game away on the NHS?

Is this the ‘greenest government ever’?

What is the socio-political significance of The King’s Speech?

When Cameron and Tony Blair speak on the phone, who hangs up?

What is it about Northerners that makes William Hague so comfortable?

What is it about having his best mate around that makes Liam Fox so comfortable?

Is this really a good time to start the National Wellbeing Project?

Will they at least make their fucking minds up about how often they’re going to empty the bins?

What can we learn from sharing Cameron’s personal journey?

The housing benefit cap: is it more like the ‘Highland Clearances’ (unnamed Tory minister) or ‘Kosovo-style ethnic cleansing’ (Boris Johnson)?

Is the Coalition’s bid to ‘woo women voters’ doomed and also a bit creepy?

David Laws: was he the best of us?

How could England’s 2018 World Cup bid fail?

Michael Gove: is he the worst of us?

Could RBS shares be the Coalition’s North Sea oil?

Will Cameron kill Clegg?

Did Louise Mensch kill Louise Bagshawe?

Why is the language of cuts so sexual (‘deep’, hard’, ‘sustained’, ‘structural’, etc.)?

Are many people’s attitudes to the cuts strangely redolent of very poor answers on Family Fortunes?

What is Steve Hilton?

What is worse for the economy: weddings or snow?

Is there a Tory Party Tea Party?

Is a degree worth £60,000?

What was Jim Davidson’s take on the Arab Spring?

Is there much work around for David Cameron looky-likeys?

What percentage of the UK population are millionaires?

What percentage of the Cabinet are millionaires?

What can you say about George Osborne that hasn’t already been said?

Is it wise to put Sir Toby Young in charge of all the schools?

So remind me, how many people voted Tory again?

What should we make of the fact that Cameron’s favourite painting is ‘Guernica’?

Where will it all end?

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