“I have no interest in marriage’s salvation … I seek to abolish completely what is a corrupt and oppressive institution,” writes Australian feminist Clementine Ford in the introduction to her new book about why women shouldn’t marry.

There is little in Ford’s attack on marriage that hasn’t been said before. But her deft use of irony and sarcasm ensures her arguments are presented in the highly entertaining way that viewers of John Oliver or Samantha Bee will find familiar.