A review by rachelchadfield
Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan

challenging informative fast-paced

2.0

I went into this book hoping to be convinced - I am Piers' target audience. An open minded liberal who will engage in intelligent debate. However this book is not for me, nor is it for anyone who disagrees with him. Exactly 150 times he used the termed "woke" "wokies" or "illiberal liberals" - how are you meant to get those people on side when you slate their entire belief system at every opportunity you get. The language is cheap and lazy. 23 separate mentions of Harry and Meghan though he concludes that talking about them is a waste of time. 23 mentions of people you don't believe deserve air time. The use of random statistics and quotes that vaguely support his theories is lazy journalism, I expected more. My favourite being "86% (of a very large response) said no." Who knew you could leave out the most important contextual part of a statistic as long as your reader isn't going to question it. 

I'm left thoroughly disappointed, whilst there are arguments and points within the book that I wholeheartedly agree with, I am left with a sour taste in my mouth. I wanted Piers to convince me that he was the voice of reason, that a discussion could be had that would unify a broken conversation, I am instead reaffirmed that there will never be a middle ground. He does not want to hear my opinion so ultimately I can not hear his.