We at Biteback would just like to make something clear... politics can be funny. A special mention goes to Hillary Clinton for her appearance in the London Metro this morning falling on her face as she went to get on a plane. We feel your pain Hillary, but it’s alright, it’s not like anyone saw. Now, just walk it off and act like you so meant to do it.
I mean, of course politics can be funny, it’s not like the country’s at stake or anything.
Alright, maybe we’ll admit that politics does have to be quite serious a lot of the time, which is why we picked a fairly innocuous piece from the news about a politician who probably won’t read this blog and decided not to entitle it ‘She fell over’. But our point is that there is always room to laugh (especially when someone from work comes back from his holiday in California and tells us about the weather and - having not seen the sun for 3 months – we just want to cry).
So when Mike Ion reviewed one of our titles, Why Join A Trade Union? for Tribune and called it “very funny [with] some excellent one-liners”, we were rather pleased. For such a deeply important issue, as union battles and strikes take up pages of the newspaper every day (right next to Hillary Clinton), Mike Ion seemed to greatly enjoy this particular study of the history and activities of trade unions.
“Jo Phillips and David Seymour advocate the strengths and many virtues of collective endeavour – in a witty and at times highly irreverent manner.”
He also says of the book:
“Why Join a Trade Union? is a readable, engaging and thought-provoking book that reminds us that things can’t and don’t always get better; that sometimes they can and do get a good deal worse.”
So, as the 2010/11 winter of discontent continues, Biteback provides a book that brings you the news, with all of its coldness and tragedy, but with a little bit of sunshine and comedy as well.
Order your copy of Why Join a Trade Union? by Jo Phillips and David Seymour here for £7.99