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Spectacular invective: Jonathan Meades lets rip about Boris and Brexit

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

17 April 2021

9:00 AM

Pedro and Ricky Come Again Jonathan Meades

Unbound, pp.983, 30

The title alludes to Jonathan Meades’s first collection of criticism, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, and to the album by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in their scabrous personae of Derek and Clive. Meades explains the title in his introduction: ‘It’s akin to “Two-Hour Dry Cleaners” where the operative, out of her head on perchloroethylene, tells you that’s just the name of the shop and it’ll be ready a week Tuesday.’

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