Breaking the Code by Gyles Brandreth

This was pretty interesting - Brandreth was a Government whip for the final stages of the Major government. You'll enjoy it if you are interested in how those whips work and whether House of Cards (the British one) is really true. What got me was not so much the blackmailing of MPs to vote with the Government, but the arcane rituals of the Whips office - who must shut the door, who must pour out the wine....There is absolutely no philosophy in this book (political or other - is this to maximise his readership?) although he describes his wealthy lifestyle in detail (private jet to Venice, jet for lunch then opera at Verona), which is just before he decides to become an MP and presumably be horrified at ideas like the minimum wage. No social injustice is worth his comment, but what he ate and drank at this dinner and that with this celebrity or that certainly is. And that is a comment.