You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Through Unloved Britain

by Tim Moore

We sue sea zoos on the sea shore.

truism

The stale-crust carpet tiles didn’t look like they’d been laid so much as pasted on both sides and tossed in from the doorway.

Unless you’re the Daily Mail you can’t argue with figures:

febrile

‘Ceauşescu’s Romania with fast food outlets’.

asinine

I was going where the pubs were hard, and the miners ex. I was going to Merthyr Tydfil.

swagged

the look of a town that had faked its own death.

rheumy

mellifluous

opprobrium.

terrazzo

Skeins

gout