Pedro and Ricky Come Again by Jonathan Meades review â dandyish Hulk rampage From Duchamp to Orwell, fascism to Brexit ⦠this collection of journalism and speeches showcases one of the worldâs best haters, who has never composed a dull paragraph âAn ear for the brutal music of invectiveâ ⦠Jonathan Meades. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian âAn ear for the brutal music of invectiveâ ⦠Jonathan Meades. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian Wed 28 Apr 2021 02.30 EDT Jonathan Meades is a sceptic. Not in the debased sense of someone who gullibly parrots the claims of shills and the deluded that global warming is a hoax, or that masks donât mitigate the spread of respiratory viruses. Nor in the idly egotistical sense Meades himself identifies as âthe English bents towards spiritual sloth and intellectual incuriosity, what we dignify as scepticismâ. But in the fiery and ancient sense of scepticism: he is not just a man of little faith but an enemy of belief itself: a jeerer at creeds, a sneerer at doctrines of all flavours, metaphysical and otherwise.