

Why Can't We All Just Get Along
Author: Iain Dale
Narrator: Iain Dale
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/06/2020
Author: Iain Dale
Narrator: Iain Dale
Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/06/2020
Iain Dale is an award-winning broadcaster and presenter of the Evening Show on LBC Radio. He is the author/editor of more than 30 books and co-host of the For the Many podcast and the Iain Dale Book Club podcast. He was named Radio Presenter of the Year for 2013 and 2016 and is the former Managing Director of Biteback Publishing. He hosts the theatre show Iain Dale All Talk. Iain lives in Tunbridge Wells.
Let's get a few things straight from the outset. I fundamentally disagree with pretty much everything the author stands for. For me his party has caused more misery in this country than should have been allowed. I bought this book (I actually have the hardback edition) as a present for my mum. Due t......more
This is an interesting memoir of Dale's history of campaigning and journalism and has some interesting chapters on general lack of trust in the media and how the political discourse could be improved. I wish it could have been a bit more polemic and a bit less memoir, but I suppose that does go some......more
I enjoyed much of this book but felt it didn’t quite hang together, and I discovered why when I read the epilogue. The title suggests it’s a guide to coming together, being less divided and learning to disagree more productively. Mostly, it’s not - it’s largely James O’Brien’s views on a range of to......more
This is a wide ranging commentary by Dale on a multitude of topics that have inflamed, and enraged and incensed society. And it’s these reactions that are at the core of his message; it’s ok that we disagree with one another, it’s how we behave and verbalise our disagreement (and online) that’s the......more
‘There are very few commentators and broadcasters with an instinctive feel for real politics – who feel the passions, and who understand the flaws and the strengths of the players from the inside, with proper empathy. Iain Dale does, which makes him endlessly listenable-to and peerless. For many political-addicts, he is their warm but watchful friend.’ ‘Iain Dale is that rare beast – a forensic and mischievous interviewer with a deep sense of humanity and kindness beneath the brilliant probing. His interviews yield light as well as heat – and he has a genuine ability to step away from his own zone – to see things from a much needed, alternative perspective.’ ‘Smart, funny, and always on it, he makes me feel happier and cleverer every time I hear him speak. Watch Iain Dale open the kimono — can I rephrase that?’ ‘The indefatigable Iain Dale always cuts to the nub of politics.’