How To Be Right: ... in a world gone wrong

James O'Brien

Nov 2018 · Virgin Digital · Narrated by James O'Brien

About this audiobook

Random House presents the audiobook edition of How to Be Right, written and read by James O'Brien.

Forget agreeing to disagree – it’s time to learn How To Be Right.

Every day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming benefits scroungers, the EU, Muslims, feminists and immigrants. But what makes James’s daily LBC show such essential listening – and has made James a standout social media star – is the careful way he punctures their assumptions and dismantles their arguments live on air, every single morning.

In How To Be Right, James provides a hilarious and invigorating guide to talking to people with faulty opinions. With chapters on every lightning-rod issue, James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do, and in each case outlines the key questions to ask to reveal fallacies, inconsistencies and double standards.

If you ever get cornered by ardent Brexiteers, Daily Mail disciples or little England patriots, this book is your conversation survival guide.


‘I have had a ringside seat as a significant swathe of the British population was persuaded that their failures were the fault of foreigners, that unisex lavatories threatened their peace of mind and that ‘all Muslims’ must somehow apologise for terror attacks by extremists. I have tried to dissuade them and sometimes succeeded... The challenge is to distinguish sharply between the people who told lies and the people whose only offence was to believe them.’
– James O’Brien

Ratings and reviews

While i like the way Mr O'Brien puts together his arguments, the content of his views are sadly very one sided and he loses two stars for all his various blind spots. He simply isn't well researched and cherry picks his research to fuel a very left wing view in every case which means this is a great listening/reading for someone of that persuasion. In addition, his research itself is weak (another star) For everyone who wants a balanced view should avoid this like the plague. For a liberal, this is a masterpiece, but for someone wanting an education, this is as good as buying a Donald Trump book if you are a white supremist.

A truly stunning book thats changed me in so many ways. its help me think clearly and pander to the anger the media often want to push. I say that the book only seeks to fix broken Britain and for that no reward would ever be big enough. Please keep up your stella radio work daily as its a light to follow in an increasingly dark world. God Bless

One of the best books I've listened too (I'd like to say read, but it's an audiobook) of the year!! Fantastically written and very eloquent. I'm ashamed to say.. If O'Brien was ever to read this review.. that I am indeed a Millenial of whom works to survive.. that worries about his own existence daily. Such a great piece of work which everyone should read/listen to!

About the author

James O'Brien is a writer and radio presenter. His articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement among other places, and his daily current affairs phone-in show on LBC radio has over a million weekly listeners.