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As used on the famous Nelson Mandela

av Mark Thomas

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Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, 'The Mark Thomas Product', ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book.AS USED ON THE FAMOUS NELSON MANDELA is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read.Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace, but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer.Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling, AS USED ON THE FAMOUS NELSON MANDELA is never anything less than compulsive.… (mer)
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Mark Thomas is famous for mixing humour with politics; this book does the latter well, but the former routinely misses the mark. An important text with important points to make, that would have worked far better without the attempted humour. ( )
  soylentgreen23 | Mar 8, 2012 |
At the Edinburgh Festival in 2006 I was handed a flier for Mark Thomas' show. The flier promised a free copy of this book. I would have booked a ticket anyway, but I managed to get a ticket on the last day of his show (after queuing for *ages*)If you don't know Mark Thomas' comedy then he is an aggressive, shouty left winger. His passionate fury against those who wrong us is both funny and energizing.This book is the story of Mark's experiments in how permiable the rules on international arms dealing actually are. The events veer between the comic, the surreal and the baffling. With the help of a group of school children he even manages to import electric batons, favoured by various police forces as *the* torture tool of choice.Such an enjoyable book that it brought back to mind the energy and laughter of the live show that it accompanied. And the live show was so enjoyable that I'm going to see it again (closer to home in Cambridge) this month (May 2007):o) ( )
  fieldri1 | May 8, 2009 |
Not as fun as listening to the man talk, but full of very interesting (if depressing) information ( )
  annafdd | Sep 26, 2007 |
The arms trade is hardly a barrel of laughs but Mark Thomas's searing anger lambasts the British government and weak arms control laws for sheltering its own arms industry, particularly BAE Systems, and flogging small weapons and torture equipment to regimes that will certainly use them. A bloody good read, indeed a must-read to open eyes to the complicity of Western governments in human rights abuses elsewhere in the world. ( )
  aoife | Feb 18, 2007 |
Either you love Mark Thomas or he bugs you, but there's no two ways to feel about the arms trade -- if you're wavering towards the "it provides jobs" argument, then check out the arguments in this indispensable book. Although it covers a lot of ground (sometimes too fast - one paragraph on Israel/Palestine?!), it provides lots of references to serious source material. ( )
  deliriumslibrarian | Dec 9, 2006 |
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Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, 'The Mark Thomas Product', ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book.AS USED ON THE FAMOUS NELSON MANDELA is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly flimsy disguise and with the use of some worryingly poor accents, Mark set off on a journey of discovery in the company of arms dealers, torture victims, politicians, cops, crusties and geeks. The result is a shockingly entertaining read.Embedded within the sharpness of his humour is the truth of an industry fraught with loopholes, complacency and greed; that allows corrupt regimes to kill, maim and displace, but whose deals are often subsidised by the British taxpayer.Hard-hitting, laugh-out-loud funny and extremely unsettling, AS USED ON THE FAMOUS NELSON MANDELA is never anything less than compulsive.

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