Rant!

There are breezes, and there are hurricanes; there is the local magistrate's court, and there is the Spanish Inquisition; there is mood music, and there is Toxic Holocaust. There are words spoken in anger. And then there is RANT. RANT is the language spoken by those who have crossed the Rubicon of Unreason and entered the Realm of Rage. Discarding the bland courtesies of polite debate and reasoned argument, they take on the deranged eloquence of motor-mouthed maniacs - insult, calumny and slander spew from them like bullets from an automatic weapon. But there is a kind of verbal magnificence in their madness - In RANT!, compiler Ivor Gripe presents 1000 memorably unmeasured state-ments of full-on, blood-vessel-busting fury, loathing and intolerance from an array of contemporary luminaries who should know better than to air their prejudices in public. From Frankie Boyle's helpful advice to vegetarians ('You want to sample our vegetarian option? By all means - you can f off!') to Jeremy Clarkson's enlight-ened views on road transport ('cyclists are trespassers in the motorists' domain...run them down!'); and from Alan Sugar's considered judgment of professional foot-ballers ('scum, total scum - if they weren't football players, most of them would be in prison') to former Brazilian World Cup star Carlos Alberto's bizarre attack on Michael Owen ('he's a midget and I am not prepared to discuss him any longer'), RANT! directs its venom at a wide range of individuals and social groups. Gordon Brown, Simon Cowell, Dido, estate agents, City financiers, football referees, Liverpudlians, Japanese people, joggers and cyclists are just some of those in the firing-line.