There's a new craze in bookshops around the UK... ...namely placing Boris Johnson's new memoir next to other books on lying and/or Brexit damage - or even alongside toilet paper and cat litter... Enjoy the pics! 👇
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I've been doing something similar for years - putting a couple of copies of The New European or Morning Star over the Mail and Express in supermarkets or newsagents... #SmallActsOfResistance
dec 3, 2024, 10:42 am • 2 0 • view
Hilarious, I always cover his books with something else whenever I see it!
dec 2, 2024, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
When I was much younger and Dan Quayle was preparing to run for the 1996 Republican nomination he published a book, and it became a game to make sure any copy on display in a bookstore was upside-down.
dec 5, 2024, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
dec 2, 2024, 8:36 pm • 8 1 • view
I think it’s rather minimalist and effective easier for the staff to tidy though.
dec 3, 2024, 7:39 am • 2 0 • view
Unleashed says it all
dec 2, 2024, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Happy to hear this is still a thing. Another airport bookshop in my sights tomorrow.
dec 3, 2024, 11:55 am • 2 0 • view
Very funny and also something quite powerful in ridicule
dec 2, 2024, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
This particular book seems very popular for the job....so I used it.
dec 3, 2024, 7:02 am • 9 1 • view
I've been doing it myself. Conveniently, Miranda Hart's memoirs are generally somewhere in the vicinity.
dec 3, 2024, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I got great pleasure in mixing Unleashed with Unhinged in a certain large chain bookshop. The security guy thought it was quite funny.
dec 3, 2024, 10:33 am • 2 0 • view
dec 2, 2024, 9:13 pm • 13 2 • view
He he he
dec 2, 2024, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Is that why he's coming back from Australia? To rearrange the rearranged book shelves?
dec 5, 2024, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Comedy Gold. Blessed are the booksellers, for they taketh the piss mightily.
dec 2, 2024, 9:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Didn't know bookshops sold toilet roll.
dec 3, 2024, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of Jane McGonigal’s placing 1984 in Current Events while W was prez.
dec 5, 2024, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Love this! Evidence of British humour is the only thing I miss about the other place 😃
dec 2, 2024, 8:28 pm • 4 0 • view
In Waterstone's in Colchester a couple of weeks back I moved a copy to the crime fiction section. Didn't take a pic though, sadly.
dec 2, 2024, 8:33 pm • 6 0 • view
True Crime section though surely more appropriate?
dec 4, 2024, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
You're right. Didn't think it through enough...🤣
dec 4, 2024, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Love this. A rather British rebellion. It’s what we do so well. But we need to take it up a notch
dec 2, 2024, 8:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Can't stop laughing
dec 3, 2024, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
I did this a few weeks ago in Tesco 😄. Never thought to take a pic though
dec 2, 2024, 8:34 pm • 5 0 • view
Couldn't resist rearranging a couple of books in a Plymouth book shop a couple of weeks ago 🤫
dec 2, 2024, 8:56 pm • 14 1 • view
I will order Angela Merkel
dec 2, 2024, 9:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Hubby liked to place a few copies with the firelighters.. He calls it the Kindling Edition.
dec 3, 2024, 4:17 am • 5 1 • view
Gem is an absolute legend! 💎 @gemmagould.bsky.social ❤️👏👏👏🥊😘
dec 3, 2024, 12:24 am • 3 0 • view
I just adore you Marty you sir are magnificent ♥️🫶🏻😘
dec 3, 2024, 7:41 am • 1 0 • view
Must photograph those i do
dec 2, 2024, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw it in Southwold Waterstones the other week. It was disgracefully placed next to Alexei Navalny's Patriot. Shouldn't have been in the same building let alone on the same shelf!
dec 2, 2024, 8:28 pm • 5 0 • view
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dec 2, 2024, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view
👏👏👏
dec 3, 2024, 9:00 am • 0 0 • view
I just usually put something more interesting to read in front of it.
dec 2, 2024, 8:44 pm • 2 0 • view
🤣
dec 3, 2024, 10:23 am • 1 0 • view
And perhaps tucked on the top of shelves at the back so they are out of reach? Seriously this might become an “ under the counter” purchase for those so inclined - like the old days.
dec 3, 2024, 8:41 am • 1 0 • view
Not done that, but I did turn the smug a***'s visage round in the local Asda the other day. They're charging £15 for his BS. Asda must be mad.
dec 2, 2024, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
This is a fabulous article by @gemmagould.bsky.social I saw these when shopping -
dec 3, 2024, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
Wonderful.
dec 2, 2024, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I can’t help myself Mike. Every time I see his book I have to cover it with another one or just hide it. So glad it’s not just me
dec 3, 2024, 8:25 am • 1 0 • view
I’ve been doing it at every opportunity 🙋♀️
dec 2, 2024, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Bravo @gemmagould.bsky.social !
dec 2, 2024, 8:24 pm • 8 0 • view
Thank you Kev 🙏🏻 you are as ever the G O A T !
dec 2, 2024, 11:24 pm • 5 0 • view
Enjoyed putting his book in the fiction section this morning 😬
dec 2, 2024, 10:20 pm • 7 0 • view
Think this is my personal favourite
dec 2, 2024, 11:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Wish we'd seen it! Nice job!
dec 3, 2024, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Bloody brilliant!
dec 2, 2024, 11:31 pm • 2 0 • view
😂😂😂
dec 3, 2024, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s why i never worry about UK, fundamentally our humour will see us all ok !
dec 2, 2024, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Damn, I've only been moving it to the New Fiction shelf...
dec 2, 2024, 8:42 pm • 2 0 • view
🤣
dec 3, 2024, 10:23 am • 0 0 • view
In 1989 I accompanied Harvard University legend John Kenneth Galbraith to local Boston bookstore. I learned of his habit of rearranging book displays to make sly political statements. On one end cap he prominently placed these two books next each other, chuckled, and then solicited my approval.
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dec 2, 2024, 11:35 pm • 9 1 • view
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dec 3, 2024, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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dec 3, 2024, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
Someone mentioned that they couldn't even give the book away for free.
dec 3, 2024, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I am looking forward to seeing it in the sales book bin. Even then i won’t touch it.
dec 3, 2024, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
I must confess I’ve been guilty of turning them around so shoppers aren’t confronted with that pasty faced, deliberately untidy, waste of air’s picture
dec 2, 2024, 11:06 pm • 2 0 • view
it keeps linking to teatter
dec 3, 2024, 9:05 am • 0 0 • view
I have done it too
dec 2, 2024, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s such a nerdy thing to do, and I am absolutely here for it 😂💛 #BookwormsUniteAgainstBoris ✊
dec 3, 2024, 1:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Old news. Where have you been? Gracious!
dec 2, 2024, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Every time I see it I cover it with other books
dec 3, 2024, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
Can we place art of the deal next to a picture of Al Capone?
dec 2, 2024, 9:53 pm • 3 0 • view
I had to buy this for an Xmas gift this year. Jesus, the embarrassment. Bought in Waterstones in Edinburgh (already reduced to £15)... couldn't be seen to pick this crap up in my own home town, obviously.
dec 2, 2024, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are you giving free publicity to this ghoul of a man? His book shouldn’t be anywhere near a shelf, let alone part of some craze. Why do people never learn? Feels the same like the BBC giving Farage more airtime than the Lib Dems and the Greens 😮💨
dec 3, 2024, 9:02 am • 0 0 • view
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I turn them round, upside down then hide them behind other books, always.
dec 3, 2024, 9:25 am • 2 0 • view
I asked my local Waterstones how many sold, they said 2. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
dec 3, 2024, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
My partner made the valid point that he would not sully his hands by even touching the bumbling idiots' book.
dec 3, 2024, 2:35 pm • 1 0 • view
It's gloriously petty and so terribly British. Love it 👍
dec 2, 2024, 9:01 pm • 6 0 • view
My personal favourite: WHSmith (!) at Stansted airport a while ago
dec 2, 2024, 8:30 pm • 369 55 • view
When you know … 😉
dec 2, 2024, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Brilliant! And in response the failed bookseller is allowing the MSM to massage his overinflated ego and they bend over backwards to give him more airtime...thats not right, is it?
dec 2, 2024, 9:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Thought I’d rearrange the books at my local Asda a couple of months ago.
dec 2, 2024, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
👏
dec 2, 2024, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Even toilet paper worth more than that book.
dec 2, 2024, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I’ve been doing something similar for some time. I seem to remember doing the same with Thatcher. With the Boris ones I was a bit disappointed when I turned them round on the shelf that his ugly mug graces the back cover too 😒
dec 2, 2024, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
I loved the craze a while ago when it was in supermarkets of placing it amongst the toilet rolls 😂 Of course I'd never do such a thing myself... Well maybe 🤔
dec 2, 2024, 8:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Cat litter the winner.
dec 3, 2024, 11:20 am • 0 0 • view
Why stock it at all?
dec 2, 2024, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view