- Published: 1 September 2016
- ISBN: 9781473511170
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
Enough Said
What’s gone wrong with the language of politics?
- Published: 1 September 2016
- ISBN: 9781473511170
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 432
Thompson uses his unique vantage point … to assess the deterioration of political language and the current state of the media landscape. Thompson’s writing packs a high percentage of insights per page and his book manages to be an exemplary investigation, a history, an autopsy, a practical manual, and a cautionary tale all at once.
Publishers Weekly
He writes restlessly and compellingly… [An] intricately but also urgently argued book.
John Lloyd, Financial Times
Enough Said has real value ... We may thank Mark Thompson for the story he has told.
Jonathon Green, Daily Telegraph
[An] important study ... [Thompson] usually advances his case in cool, nuanced and forensic prose, but he is a blistering flame-thrower about the consequences of the digital revolution.
Andrew Rawnsley, Observer
Given Thompson's standing as a past leader of one of the world's dominant news organizations and the current head of another, what he thinks about the interactions among politicians, citizens and the press is by definition important.
New York Times Book Review
An ambitious book… The book is at its most persuasive when it grapples with the dilemmas of our time.
Roger Mosey, New Statesman
For the analysis – and the insights from a distinguished and experienced journalist and news executive – the book is well worth a read.
Enlightened Economist
Thompson not only writes beautifully. He knows what he is talking about… [An] enjoyable, thought-provoking mix of manifesto, history, rhetorical analysis and autobiography.
Tim Bale, Literary Review
Thompson’s great virtue in this book is his steady and cool-headed historicism… Thompson is lucid, well read, level-headed and thoughtful. His range of reference is wide…He has a robust familiarity with the history of scholarship on rhetoric, and scatters his text with easeful and on-point references to Max Weber, Martin Heidegger and Marshall McLuhan… The detail is excellent. Enough Said’s particular glories, to this reader, are Thompson’s frequent and sensitive close readings of particular instances of public language.
Sam Leith, Prospect
This is a book well worth reading by students of writing, of Public Relations and of politics. It is also well worth the effort for anyone interested in politics and communication today. We get so used to our common-day phrases that we rarely stop to think what we are doing with them and what they are doing to us. Thompson’s book is a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Enough Said!
Paula Keaveney, CIPR
[A] superb book… Thompson’s own experience in the media is brilliantly deployed throughout for insight… Thompson is a sharp and entertaining analyst of political language itself.
Steven Poole, Guardian
An elegant and urgently relevant analysis of the nature of public discourse and political language.
Pascal Donohoe, Sunday Business Post
[It offers] admirably direct and focused advice to his various audiences.
Nick Spencer, Church Times
[Enough Said] is particularly resonant to its time and place, and its intellectual and emotional setting… Thompson provides a clear and persuasive commentary on the state of public discourse.
Annie Corner, Therapy Today
[It] is written with the flair of a journalist…and the rigour of an academic. He elegantly documents the battle for public language.
Adrian Crookes, Times Higher Education, Book of the Year