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Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson by Douglas Murphy

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5.0

Funny how people are raging in the reviews about how Murphy is biased against Johnson... Someone who 'clearly just has it in for him' etc, where is the rule that people have to be unbiased in books that they write?? It's not like it's a personal vendetta the whole book literally lists dumb things Johnson did and even some things he kinda did slightly maybe not completely horrendously. It's not like it's unsubstantiated personal attacks. Silly!!

Anyway this book did an incredible job of taking two things that I have literally zero interest in (Johnson and architecture) -I don't know why I bought it tbh - and making it a complete page turner. I loved it it's such an interesting an well written read so all you Johnson supporters crying because it's 'biased' can fill a well with your tears and fall in it x

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I just couldn't get further than 20% through this one. I found the writing to be very dry and the author was extremely critical of Boris Johnson without giving any evidence so I just got annoyed with it unfortunately. I won't rate this as I didn't finish it. I'd only recommend this if you are really interested in architecture and how buildings are financed nowadays, not if you want a book about Johnson's politics.
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