pickCor, I‘m kinda addicted to memoir audios at the moment! 😂 (This is my 7th so far this year!!) But this was utterly fascinating. A real fly on the wall look into life in parliament.
pickEssential reading to help correct the nonsense spouted by mainstream media and those with power.
I swear, the TV show "Yes Minister" might as well have been a documentary.
I'm starting to understand why the country is in the state it is:
"The whips had apparently been told to exclude anyone with an interest in a subject for fear that they would ask awkward questions. They preferred non-specialist MPs, who spent the committees looking at their phones or catching up on correspondence. For the same reason it seemed doctors were not allowed on the health legislation committee."
Why Rory Stewart turned to politics. He watched politicians completely destroy what he and others had worked for in (and with) Afghanistan. He is not mincing his words. And we're only on page 15.
I figured this book would be mainly about the Brexit years onward, but we're starting with Iraq and Afghanistan before Rory Stewart even became a politician, and it is even more entertaining than I expected!
Omg, that took a lot of doing! Am very proud of myself to have received my 200 reviews badge on NetGalley.
My rating, however, has fallen from an already pitiful 30% to 21% so I've still got a lot of work to do !
Excellent. Exactly what's happening in the world right now.
Oh MAN. Schools in India have absorbed the worst of these behaviours. I remember never telling my schoolfriends about crushes to avoid ridicule. Such unhealthy behaviour.
