Summer Reading

Here is something from the BBC.

A list of books for summer reading from the Tory foreign affairs spokesman Keith Simpson. The Tories are the "conservatives" in the UK, Labor is the historically socialist leaning party and the LibDems are sort of in between.

The BBC reporter, Terry Stiastny, had this to say:

I asked Mr Simpson why no fiction featured on his list - say, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall with its tales of Tudor politics and intrigue?

Mr Simpson says he did consider that - and that he is halfway through the novel himself - but he believes that his colleagues would think telling them what fiction to read was "a great impertinence".

I love the British.  Mr Simpson is correct.  It would be "a great impertinence."

The two books that caught my eye were:

• Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression - and the Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamad, and
• Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky

Regards  —  Cliff