The phrase "a broadside about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a strong verbal or written attack on a particular subject or individual.
Example: "The article was a broadside about the government's failure to address climate change."
Alternatives: "a tirade against" or "a critique of".
We are your enemy," adding, with a sly broadside about how he and his co-defendants had been treated for years, "If this is the case, you could have killed us years ago instead of holding us for years under torture".
In 1959, Norman Mailer published "The Last Draft of The Deer Park," an unhinged broadside about the rejection of his third novel by seven New York publishers, and the nervous breakdown that this precipitated.
China on Wednesday accused Hong Kong's main opposition party of being unpatriotic and seeking to overthrow the central government in a broadside attack that raised fresh questions about whether the Communist Party is willing to tolerate political freedom in the nominally autonomous territory.
Vincent Nichols, the most senior Roman Catholic clergyman in England and Wales, rode into the argument about entitlements on February 15th with a broadside against the coalition's welfare reforms.
He seems like he has doubts about locals' ability to stomach a broadside like this piece of art in public space, but he's got a long history of bringing people's history to the people.
The title reads like a broadside against exploitative labour practices, but it's actually about Young keeping going.
Then the Working Families Party and the unions loosened a broadside.
Along with Mr Fok's price pledge yesterday, he also fired a broadside at the British regulator, Ofcom's Sharon White, for wading into the argument this week about whether the deal should get the green or red light.
Fired together, the prejudices of Preston Sturges constitute a broadside against the blandishments of an orderly life.
There was a clever joke about being the only 20-year-old whose housing was subsidised by the taxpayer, another at the expense of her colleagues and a broadside against the government.
