Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 382.456234
EAN: 9780091909222
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0091909228
Label: Ebury Press
Manufacturer: Ebury Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 05, 2007
Publisher: Ebury Press
Studio: Ebury Press

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Rating: - I will recommend this book to anyone who listens
A stand-up comedian writes about the arms trade. It sounds an oxymoron in itself doesn't it? Well it manages to be funny and shocking at the same time.
Mark Thomas clearly has the ability and the nerve to open doors that perhaps the typical arms trade protestor couldn't. He also has TV involved which serves to get his message to a wider audience than most and gives him the budget necessary to arrange the set ups that he needs to, to get the information for this book.
He has an incredible ... Read More

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Rating: - Ozzie's Cocaine Breast Milk
The comedian and political activist takes on the gun trade in this book and shows how a good mind for Cluedo, a knowledge of legal loopholes and a telephone is all he needs to sell arms to Zimbabwe or any other dispicable regime. It's so easy in fact that as part of his experiment a bunch of school kids and a Catholic Nun also set themselves up as arms dealers and can ship mines and grenades across the world.

As one of the reviews on the back of the book says this is "John Pilger with jokes" ... Read More

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Rating: - Who said Politics was boring?
I have watched Mark Thomas on television for years now and have always thought he was brilliant. This is his first book and his writing style is very like his stand up routine. As I read the book I could almost see him standing up on stage reciting the words.
The book charts Mark investigates Britain involvement in the armaments industry and how much influence the arms companies have over the government here.
It is a brilliant read very informative the only thing I would say is that it would ... Read More

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Rating: - Startling, Informative, Hilarious, Essential Reading!
It's not often that "Arms Trade" and "Satirical Comedy" get mentioned in the same sentence, but those phrases would sit fine with this book. Mark Thomas has transformed from a stand-up comic that went on demonstrations into a political activist that does stand-up, and in a way this book documents that.

His C4 show, the Mark Thomas Comedy Product, used to poke fun at the police and his stand up shows would announce his great plan for getting junk mail reduced (get all the freebies sent to Michael ... Read More

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Rating: - Brave, well-written, funny, important, a must-read
A well-written account of Mark Thomas' investigations into, and brave confrontations with, arms brokers up to 2006. It's important to note that this is arms brokering rather than arms use and so while there are guns and torture weapons on display, this book isn't set in a warzone- it is set in the bizarrely convoluted and loophole-ridden world of British politics, EU embargoes, Channel 4 exposes and large arms trade fairs at London's ExCeL centre.

It's more jaw-droppingly staggering than it is funny, ... Read More

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