Reasons To Be Cheerful
(Mark Steel)
First
things first, you won't like this book if:
1. You're
a Tory
2. You like Margaret Thatcher
3. You are Margaret Thatcher
You see,
Mark Steel, stand-up comic, Radio 4 presenter, ex-Guardian columnist
and host of the best historical programme to grace BBC3 (erm...) is
also a socialist. A socialist who was 17 when Thatcher came to power
- and who bears a grudge (though, as you follow the book, the grudge
is now more mature, less vitriolic).
These are
essentially Steel's memoirs, his history, his battle, from trying
to convince everyone they should be socialist, believing it would
be easy after realising that Russia was actually 'State Capitalist',
through the miners' strike, to the first Iraq war and the smiley,
smarmy, insincere one's taking over of the reins.
But don't
be put off by thinking this is simply a political polemic, it's an
incredibly witty affair, a laugh is guaranteed every 10 pages at least
and, at least in this reviewer, some deep-settled socialist leanings
were reawakened in a realisation that it doesn't mean you have to
be 'different' to be a socialist.
Buy this
book, if only to put more money in Mark Steel's pocket and watch a
strange dilemma develop.
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