Description
Humanity split the atom, mapped the genome and put people on the Moon. Then we invented kettles that need apps, subscriptions for things we used to own, self-checkouts that argue about carrots and social media accounts dedicated to rediscovering things our parents simply called “going outside”.
The Great British Book of Fuckwittery is Ian Callaghan’s irreverent tour through modern life, Gen X childhoods, technology, bureaucracy, ageing, social media, artificial intelligence, wellness culture, consumer nonsense and the everyday human ability to take something perfectly useful, add six unnecessary layers and turn it into a subscription.
Raised on a council estate in South Wales, followed by twelve years in the British Army and roughly twenty-five years in IT, Ian has spent nearly six decades watching intelligent human beings do magnificently ridiculous things.
Nobody gets a free pass. Not younger generations. Not Gen X. Not governments, brands, influencers, algorithms, wellness grifters or Ian himself. The book is not here to fix you, recruit you or prove one generation had all the answers. It is here to notice the ridiculous, poke at the serious bits underneath it and give us permission to laugh at ourselves before somebody monetises laughter as a monthly membership.
Read it properly. Read it randomly. Read it on the bog.
Details
Publisher - Ian Callaghan
Language - English
Perfect Bound
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Ian Callaghan
Published Date - 2026-09-11
ISBN - 9798172767777
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 193
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