Audiobooks by Russell Jones

Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. All of which led to an inglorious start to 2022: the year the UK saw two monarchs, three prime ministers and four chancellors. From Boris Johnson, who crashed our international reputation and handed billions to his mates so they could ineptly fight a pandemic while he stayed at home, shagging and acting as a super-spreader; to Liz Truss, a drive-by prime minister who managed to kill off the queen and crash the economy in a single week. And now we're led by Rishi Sunak, who doesn't know how to use a credit card, drives a pretend car, and grinningly promises even more poverty. Four Chancellors and a Funeral delivers more of Russell Jones's signature scathing wit, combining a detailed historical record of 2021 and 2022, with acerbic commentary, all of it leavened by jokes at the seemingly endless maelstrom of failures, nincompoops and hypocrisies.

Russell Jones (Author), Chris Devon (Narrator)

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The Decade in Tory: An inventory of idiocy from the coalition to Covid

In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and an unrelenting stream of ineffectual, divisive bum-slurry oozing from 10 Downing Street. The Decade in Tory is an inglorious, rollicking and entirely true account of ten years of demonstrable lies, relentless incompetence, epic waste, serial corruption, official police investigations, anti-democratic practices, abuse of power, dereliction of duty and hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths. With his signature scathing wit, Russell Jones breaks down the government's interminable failures year by year, covering everything from David Cameron's pledge to tackle inequality – which reduced UK life expectancy for the first time since 1841 – through the bewildering storm of lies and betrayals that led to Brexit, devastating education cuts, serial mismanagement of the NHS and Boris Johnson's calamitous response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will leave you gasping and wondering: can things possibly get any worse?

Russell Jones (Author), Chris Devon (Narrator)

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Sense: Unlock Your Senses and Improve Your Life

Listen to Sense, a fascinating and revelatory audiobook on how we can unlock our five senses to vastly improve every part of our lives. This audiobook is narrated by the author who has used his multisensory expertise to enhance the recording with sound effects that will awaken your senses as you listen. How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can help you fall asleep? Our senses have a powerful effect on how we think, feel and behave; yet we don't use them to their full potential. For over a decade, multisensory marketing expert Russell Jones has been using the science of the senses to design products, brands and retail environments that tantalise our senses in revolutionary ways. In this incredible new book, Jones takes research from the worlds of neuroscience, experimental and behavioural psychology and beyond, and shows you how to live more multi-sensorially; paying attention to the sounds, scents, colours, objects, shapes and textures that constantly surround you, to profoundly impact and improve every aspect of your life. Whether it's helping you feel energised in the morning, get the most from your work-out, be efficient at the office, avoid getting caught in the traps of savvy retailers or creating the perfect sensory background to enjoy your food with. And, finally, he helps you have the most restful evening and night's sleep you possibly can. Sense is a fascinating and revelatory look at how you can use your senses in a way you never have before. A big-idea, pop-science audiobook in the vein of Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nudge and The Power of Habit.

Russell Jones (Author), Russell Jones (Narrator)

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Sick & Tired of Being Sick & Tired: Solutions for a Better, Healthier Life

Russell Jones is a living example of what is possible in physical fitness and wellness. At 67 years old he looks and feels better than people half his age. This book was created to help offer a solution to the many people who live their day to day lives feeling sick and tired and are ready to make some changes and live their best life in the only body they'll ever have. I'm Sick & Tired of: 1. America being obese & overweight (as a kid growing up 15 people could fit in an elevator, now only 3). 2. my friends & family dying way too young. 3. people coming to me injured, sick & out of shape to tell me everything they know about health. 4. lazy, out-of-touch doctors who would rather write a prescription than offer sound guidance on how to eat and exercise. 5. the fitness industry preying on people who need real help. 6. hearing people blame their genetics for their health woes when the truth is that it's their lifestyle. 7. finicky eaters of all ages. 8. how physically weak America has become. 9. erectile dysfunction commercials. 10. people who tell me how many steps they took today. 11. 20 year old fitness gurus. ...see inside for 14 more... I try not to offend anyone. But if I do, it's with Love in my Heart.

Russell Jones (Author), Russell Jones (Narrator)

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