| Description |
232 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
In this book, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue in current affairs, James tells the stories of the conversations he's had, explains why people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. If you ever encounter ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail readers or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide. Forget agreeing to disagree - it's time to learn how to be right. ̀I have had a ringside seat as a significant swathe of the British population was sold an enormous dose of industrial strength snake oil. I watched them being persuaded that their failures were the fault of foreigners, that their lack of funds was caused by people with even less than them and that their whole lives were somehow somebody else's fault. I listened to them explain how unisex lavatories threatened their peace of mind and heard them insist that ̀all Muslims' must somehow apologise for terror attacks undertaken by extremists. I tried to dissuade them and sometimes succeeded... The challenge is to do it in a way that distinguishes sharply between the people who told lies and the people whose only offence was to believe them |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2018 |
| Subject |
Public opinion
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Radio personalities -- Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9780753553121 (paperback) |
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