Well , if Jeffrey Bernard , bastion of the boho , Soho , anti-establishment is one of your biggest fans , and Richard Ingrams , prince of the Private Eye curmudgeons , calls your character " a true hero of our time , " and Jeremy Paxman , Newsnight 's resident Rottweiler , described your last Adrian Mole outing as " the funniest book of the year , " then you can probably be pretty sure that you 've hit a nerve or , to put it more cynically , created a formula that works .