Comedian Hugh Dennis sat down to watch the Olympics in 2012 expecting the classic British failure, and after watching the archery team that had trained for 4 years fail to get past the elimination round. Here we go again he thought. But soon after we started to win, and with an aggressive streak that was most uncommon and ending up doing much better than Mitt Romney expected or the French hoped.

With this he decides to take a close look at what makes the British the way they are. Under his satirical gaze comes the weather, democracy and our industrial lead that we gave the world. After a meander through the competitive place that is the garden, asks if we are the nation of animal lovers that we portray ourselves as, and then sits down for a stiff drink whilst looking at our relationship with the hop and the vine.

Dennis writes in his own indomitable way; cynical, satirical and at times very amusing. It sometimes falls a little flat though and this is one of those rare occasions when I think that the audio book would be much funnier that the written word. Good solid three stars though. ( )

"I expected wit, irreverence, and erudition from Hugh Dennis and I got it."
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