Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021

* Wiley also said, ‘David Baddiel come and talk to my face.’ Also, ‘Emma Barnett get me on your show.’ And said something about Alan Sugar that I can’t now find on the internet. It began to remind me – this is really a joke for football fans – of the Norwegian commentator who when England lost to Norway started listing all the famous English people he could remember in order to convey his sense of triumph. ‘Winston Churchill … Lady Diana … Lord Beaverbrook, your boys took one hell of a beating.’ I could kind of hear Wiley in his head going ‘David Baddiel … Emma Barnett … Alan Sugar …’ but then running out of any more Jews he could think of, despite us infiltrating and owning the entire media.