An A-Z of bad stuff
David Broder reviews ‘Is it just me or is everything shit?’, by Steve Lowe and former solidarity deputy editor Alan McArthur The culture of ridiculously overblown praise, as embodied in the title, is merely one of the elements of modern society that Is it just me or is everything shit? lambasts. The book is an “encyclopedia of modern life” — an A-Z of attacks on subjects as diverse as Robert Kilroy-Silk, Che Guevara merchandise and “Fast food chains marketing themselves as ‘healthy’ (and feminist)”. Before reading the book, I’d thought that books/programmes/articles being cynical about modern...