In his latest funny and enthralling book, Jon Ronson poses the question of whether madmen inordinately occupy the boardrooms of multinationals worldwide. He takes some dark turns in pursuit of the answer, from psychiatric institutions and high-security p

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I avoid reality television not for morals, or snobbery, or protest. Its because I get sucked in, and when I do, I lose things: like time, and in some cases, humility, like when I watch Jersey Shore and feel more evolved in comparison. On a personal level

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Who decides who is mad? And what if they are mad as March hares themselves? Jon Ronson’s offbeat look at a serious topic is hilarious and disturbing. What happened to old-fashioned death? John Gray is on coruscating form as he anatomises one of the sickn

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