How To Be Right
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  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780753553114
  • Imprint: Virgin Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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How To Be Right

… in a world gone wrong

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1 Nov 2018
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1 Nov 2018
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13 Jun 2019
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James O’Brien – runaway talk show sensation – with a provocative guide to dismantling small minds and conquering prejudice.


The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up.

The Sunday Times Bestseller
Winner of the Parliamentary Book Awards

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.
  • Published: 1 November 2018
  • ISBN: 9780753553114
  • Imprint: Virgin Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240
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About the author

James O'Brien

James O'Brien is a writer and radio broadcaster. His journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror. He has presented BBC Two’s Newsnight and his own daytime talk show O’Brien on ITV. His daily current affairs phone-in show on LBC has 1.2 million weekly listeners. His last book, How to be Right, was a Sunday Times Bestseller.

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Praise for How To Be Right

James O’Brien has become the conscience of liberal Britain

New Statesman

James O'Brien is the epitome of a smug, sanctimonious, condescending, obsessively politically-correct, champagne-socialist public schoolboy Remoaner

The Sun

Almost indecently enjoyable

Robert Webb

I know few broadcasters as consistently, forensically, brilliant as James O’ Brien. Here, he shows us -- with empathy, edge and exquisite comedy -- how it happens

Emily Maitlis

A total joy. If you feel like the world is going to hell in a handcart, here's the brakes

Caitlin Moran

This book is required reading to slice through the rhetoric, slogans & bluster of politics and politicians. James is the broadcaster we need right now, setting the world to rights one call at a time

Susanna Reid

Funny, clever and alarming ... a modern day travelogue through the airwaves with all the mistrust, misinformation, contradictions and manipulation laid bare

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

A simply brilliant read ... I love this book!

Jamie Oliver

I am stupidly excited about this book

The Secret Barrister

This book made me smarter. And it made me laugh and nod my head, all the while thinking ‘bloody hell, I wish I could argue like James’. Cogent, necessary, insightful and often very funny.

Elizabeth Day

Intelligent, funny and worrying. An unsurprisingly brilliant read from a great broadcaster. I vehemently wish that everyone would read it. The World and this country would be a better place if they did.

Gary Lineker

Funny, wise and passionate. Like Yoda with better grammar.

Danny Wallace

Generous, severe, principled, eloquent and righteous.

Ian Dunt

O’Brien is an exceptional broadcaster with a peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, a quality which similarly runs through this book ... provides a much-needed examination of the blustering rhetoric of politicians and media pundits, and brings a sliver of comfort to readers that they are not alone in their despair.

The Guardian

In the age of the tweet, such verbal ability increasingly seems like a superpower

The Times

The oral equivalent of Greco-Roman wrestling

New York Times