We are snooped on, hectored & hounded by state nannies, in a state of interference from cradle to grave. We also have to put up with the unjustified & disproportionate use of fines & charges, bloody-minded parking restrictions & preposterous European directives. Philip Johnston exposes the Bad Laws
- those irritating regulations & Whitehall idiocies that have made life in Britain a day-to-day nightmare & threaten to change the nature of this country. So, what s so bad? A snooper s charter that lets an army of council jobsworths look at your phone & email details. More CCTV cameras than anywhere in teh world
- yet they fail to deter criminals. The world's biggest DNS crime database that contains the profiles of over a million innocent people. The threat of a visit from the police for having politically incorrect opinions. A ban on smoking so inflexible that it threatens the future of a great British institution
- the pub. This is a great country with proud traditions
- so why have we lost touch with the commonsense attitudes that once defined us?



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Journalist, family man, & paranoid writer.

Zack Walker visits his father's lakeside fishing camp. But the fresh air,

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You do not mess with Jack Reacher. He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity & solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to contact him, he knows this has to be serious. You do not mess with the Special Investigators. In the past the elite team always watched each other's backs. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert & six more are missing. Reacher's old buddies are in big trouble, & he can't let that go. Product information: ISBN: 9780857500144 Author: Lee Child Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Format: Paperback Pages: 544 ...

A band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman & her son, & the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer & the island's resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is the guardian of the island's secrets, the repository of its memories. ...

' Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks & journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400, 000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, te ...

Ben Goldacre's wise & witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists & evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax & misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture & homeopathy, vitamins & mankind's vexed relationship with all manner of 'toxins'. Along the way, the self-confessed ' Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General' performs a successful detox on a Barbie doll, sees his dead cat become a certified nutritionist & probes the supposed medical qualifications of ' Dr' Gillian Mc Keith. Full spleen & satire, Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating & ultimately alarming journey through the bad science we are fed daily by hacks & quacks. ...

This is a biography of musician Nick Cave, from his early days with " The Birthday Party". Charting his career, it explores Cave's idiosyncratic, obsessive lyrical visions, which make no concession to prevailing musical fads. Insights into his turbulent personal life are also given. ...

Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman & Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, but he has the potential to change the boys' lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law through California & Texas, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows in their wake
- something that forces them to make a choice about their lives, & their relationship to one another. Set in the 1960s, BAD SIGNS is a tale of the darkness within all of us, the inherent hope for salvation, & the ultimate consequences of evil. It returns to the haunting ground covered in the award-winning, international bestseller, A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS.
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Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman & Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, but he has the potential to change the boys' lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law through California & Texas, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows in their wake
- something that forces them to make a choice about their lives, & their relationship to one another.
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When flames rip through their family home, only teenager Stephanie & her younger brother escape unhurt. Brett

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