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The Big Hippo Guide by Bob Marshall Andrews and Martin Rowson
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“MAD, bad and dangerous to know” — that’s what Lady Caroline Lamb said when she first clapped eyes on Lord Byron and the political Establishment and their brown-nosing media acolytes will probably splutter the same words about Bob Marshall Andrews and Martin Rowson when they take a gander at this satirical assault on the corridors of Westminster power.
With words by Marshall Andrew, ex-Labour MP and thorn in Tony Blair’s side, and images from the incomparable Rowson, this is a guide to how British democracy works or, as this book eloquently demonstrates, doesn’t.
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