A book blurb from former Prime Minister Liz Truss:
In this explosive insider account, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss revisits the extraordinary events of 2022 from inside Downing Street, challenging the establishment narrative surrounding the Mini-Budget and revealing a far deeper struggle over who really controls Britain.
Truss exposes the immense influence wielded by unelected institutions, from the Bank of England and the Treasury to the Office for Budget Responsibility, and reveals how the forces which brought down her government went far beyond economics.
The book – titled Bank Job: A Short Book on How the Bank of England Broke the Bond Market Brought Down the Government – has provoked some scoffing commentary, much of it, but not all, harvested from social media (here and here)
Previous prime minister have tended to favour HarperCollins and its various imprints as their publisher, but Truss in this instance has instead chosen Free Speech Press, an imprint of Fisher King Publishing run by former Eastbourne headteacher Mike Fairclough. Writing on Toby Young’s Daily Sceptic in August, Fairclough explained that
Climate alarmism, gender ideology, pharmaceutical products, censorship, illegal immigration, wokeism and the growing reach of the state are shaping our society, yet many people have become reluctant to speak openly about them… Books can help break that silence. They can give people permission to explore ideas they may have been afraid to question, introduce them to arguments they rarely encounter elsewhere and, perhaps most importantly, inspire them to find the courage to openly express their opinions.
George Orwell’s novels are the perfect example of this, which is why our first publication is a new edition of 1984, with an original prologue written especially for us by Neil Oliver.
Shades of “By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor”. I noted some of Neil Oliver’s output here – he has a show on GB News, but it is online only rather than broadcast, meaning that his rampant conspiracising is not covered by Ofcom.
Fairclough continues:
One of the founding authors at Free Speech Press, Mike Graham, has already shown what is possible… I asked him to write a book and within a few weeks we had one.
Graham perhaps had time on his hands after being fired from Talk TV for declining to cooperate into an investigation into racist posts that appeared on his Facebook account, which he attributed to “hackers”. Graham now has his own YouTube channel, UKLive, which also hosts Truss. (1)
Fairclough himself is the author of Sovereignty: John Mappin, The Restoration of Sanity (“His close relationship with Charlie Kirk, his friendship with Candace Owens, and his associations with figures such as Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage show how his influence reaches across continents… Arthur. Achilles. Odysseus. Mappin. The names change. The archetype endures”), published by the parent Fisher King Publishing imprint (more on Mappin here).
Other Fisher King authors include former GP David Cartland (struck off last year for harassment of doctors) and Bernie Spofforth, dining out on her experience of being investigated by police after posting disinformation about the identity of the Southport killer. (2)
Notes
1. Truss’s book includes thanks to one Charlotte Binns, who is Graham’s executive producer, for “author photograph”. Binns is also associated with David Icke and previously worked on projects for his “Ickonic” channel.
2. Spofforth (var. Bernadette Spofforth) and GB News’s Alex Armstrong were more recently in the news when they agreed to apologise and pay damages after having falsely accused Mothin Ali of rioting in the 2024 Harehills disturbances. A video shows that Ali in fact remonstrated with the rioters and tried to prevent them from starting fires.
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