Ben Elton returns, again in his incomparable role as a satirist with cinematic vision. His new book is an uncompromising novel about the “age of the abused” in which we live. We didn’t even notice how millions of people began to sort things out around the clock, to be offended by this and that, to be offended for no reason and just for fun. There is continuous bloodshed on social networks these days. Moving forward just a few years, Elton simulates what could happen in Britain in the near future, with bloodshed spilling from the wires onto the pavements. Scotland Yard, the referendum on England's secession from the Kingdom, international machinations and interference in the affairs of sovereign democracies, all the colors of the gender rainbow spectrum, MeToo, murder, suicide, the Internet, television - these are just a few of the hashtags by which this novel will be remembered. Elton gives no mercy to hypocrites of all stripes who seem to have taken over politics, social media, the media and show business.