Piers Morgan
Auteur van The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade
Werken van Piers Morgan
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Pughe-Morgan, Piers Stefan
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- O'Meara, Piers Stefan (birth)
- Geboortedatum
- 1965-03-30
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
- Geboorteplaats
- Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Harlow College
- Relaties
- Walden, Celia (wife)
Walden, George (father-in-law)
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- Werken
- 11
- Leden
- 321
- Populariteit
- #73,715
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 18
- ISBNs
- 29
- Talen
- 1
‘Wake Up’ is written in the form of a diary between January - July 2020 as Covid emerged and gripped the world. And Piers diaries how he uses his various platforms to hold the government to account & voice what I imagine most of us were thinking: why aren’t we locking down earlier? why are covid patients being sent to care-homes? why are flights still allowed? Why can Cummings test his eye-sight in a car-jaunt when parents aren’t allowed to be with their child as he is dying alone in a hospital?
I understand Piers is a marmite figure, but the ‘pantomime villain’ sounds mostly a sensible chap within these pages. He argues passionately against ‘cancel culture virtue signallers’ & for freedom of speech, tolerance & civil debate (though hypocritically undermines himself by calling for David Starkey to be banned from tv for his racist views - huh?)
In general he sounds the alarm, warning of the danger of the rise of toxic tribalism & of those with entrenched views believing those who dont slavishly agree are not only wrong but stupid, preventing debate, understanding & conciliation.
A fascinating, thought-provoking read about lots of people enjoying getting angry & shouting on social media. But, call me cynical - that flouncing off a tv show got huge publicity, just in time to promote this rant-of-an-essay...… (meer)