Osbert Lancaster fue un satírico y caricaturista británico cuya obra ofreció comentarios ingeniosos y civilizados sobre la sociedad británica. Su arte, caracterizado por un humor sutil y una profunda comprensión de la naturaleza humana, se centró en la sátira social y arquitectónica. A través de sus populares caricaturas, incluido el innovador formato 'Pocket Cartoon', Lancaster representó de manera simpática y con amable diversión a la sociedad británica, en particular a sus clases altas. Su trabajo proporcionó alivio cómico y perspectiva durante tiempos difíciles, estableciéndolo como un crítico culto de las debilidades humanas.
An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy
Nancy Mitford's "The English Aristocracy" in 1955 sparked off the great debate about U and non-U usage. The articles collected here include contributions from Alan Ross, Evelyn Waugh, "Strix", Christopher Sykes, and John Betjeman.
Parkinson's Law states that 'work expands to fill the time available'. While strenuously denied by management consultants, bureaucrats and efficiency experts, the law is borne out by disinterested observation of any organization. The book goes far beyond its famous theorem, though. The author goes on to explain how to meet the most important people at a social gathering and why, as a matter of mathematical certainty, the time spent debating an issue is inversely proportional to its objective importance. Justly famous for more than forty years, Parkinson's Law is at once a bracingly cynical primer on the reality of human organization, and an innoculation against the wilful optimism to which we as a species are prone.