How To Be Right
Intelligent
Educational
Witty

How To Be Right ... in a world gone wrong

James O'Brien2018
The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up. The Sunday Times Bestseller Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers at the EU and feminists for destroying Britain. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the incisive way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning. In the bestselling How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with unchallenged opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards. If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or corporate cronies, this book is your conversation survival guide.
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Sveinbjörn Pálsson@sveinbjorn
4 stars
Oct 2, 2023

Given the subject matter, which is being on the right side of history, this is a surprisingly easy read. Therein lies O’Brien’s brilliance, managing to update aging blokes’ ideological library in a logical yet compassionate manner. There’s a bit of tonic against our divided world in here, mostly found in the author’s kind and nonjudgemental (for the most part) attitude.

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Ilia Markov@ilia
4 stars
Aug 1, 2021

This is a really interesting book, although it zig-zags a little bit between wanting to be a book on current society and the political issues that split it, and a practical textbook on rhetoric. It's short, so it's very easy to read, but I'd like to see another one where the author goes into more detail not just on different issues that spread the liberal-conservative divide (Trump, feminism, Brexit, etc.), but more into what links them and why we have the rift in the first place (and how we close it).

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Gem Koeman@gemkoeman
5 stars
Oct 14, 2021
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Georgi Mitrev@gmitrev
4 stars
Jul 4, 2023
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Mark@mflfc68
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Kuba Milcarz@kubamilcarz
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Brendan Kearns@brendan
5 stars
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Cameron Jones@cammyrjones
5 stars
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Imie Kent-Muller@mythicreader
5 stars
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Stephen Gill @steog
5 stars
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Rubi Malik @rubi
5 stars
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Vicki Hesketh@vickirainbow
5 stars
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Hidde@hdv
5 stars
Aug 14, 2021
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Adrian Longbotham @adrianlongb
5 stars
Aug 1, 2021