Title: Johnson's books are a waste of good trees
Product review: The born-again Catholic Johnson, once a poor editor of the poor journal New Statesman, has written a book which reveals only his own ugly mean-mindedness. Someone remarked to Napoleon, "No man is a hero to his valet." Napoleon replied, "That is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is only a valet." Johnson cannot see any virtues, because he has none himself. He is of a piece with the other bullyboys of the right, Bill O'Reilly (the great defender of family values,now on sexual harassment charges), Rush Limbaugh, Kelvin McKenzie, Alistair Campbell, Bernard Ingham, Christopher Hitchens. All pose as iconoclastic, brave and outspoken; but all cravenly repeat the lies of power. All fawn on the rich swine who own the media pulpits from which they bully those who never have a chance to reply.
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