The Spin Doctor's Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour

If you want to understand Blairs Britain read this book. I thought this was a great account. Homophobes might try to play it down but it's refreshingly human account of someone who almost by accident finds himself in No 10. Most books don't grab you from the start but from the wry account of getting the job from Tony Blair onwards this is a gay Alan Clark. Tony Blair and the Sauna and the Prime Minister asking about gay sex are great, really human. I even ended up feeling sorry for Peter Mandleson. A real slice of first hand social history. great!

Well this explains everything - why they got it wrong whilst trying to be right. The Bridget Jones of Downing Street. Messy but human, frustrating and fascinating by turns. Politicians made real not cardboard cut outs. It was serialised in the Daily Mail but the weird thing is both their readers, those of the Guardian or the Telegraph will all get angry reading it!