Sunburn
The unofficial history of the Sun newspaper in 99 headlines

I am one of those people that have always referred to this rag as The Scum. I have never bought a copy of The Scum, and that isn’t just something that I’m proud about: I’m smug about it too! James Felton is actually a really funny man that manages to insert some serious belly laughs into a book that......more

The Sun is a shitrag paper that reports shit stories and stirs up nonsensical opinion. James Felton does a good job of showcasing that in the 99 examples he pulls out, but eventually his jokes (like the headlines he ridicules) become more or less the same. Felton is an exemplary Twitter comedian, wh......more

As much as I wanted to love Sunburn: The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines, and at times I genuinely did, it was the kind of book that overstayed its welcome by the halfway mark. I love James Felton as a comedian. He's witty, political, and irreverent. For the first quarter of t......more

Bit of a funny one to rate. When I studied journalism at uni, The Sun was the marker by which we judged morality. Our ethics seminars would regularly involve the tutor asking people if they’d take huge amounts of money for a job ‘even if it meant working for The Sun.’ I come from a family of Liverpu......more