Well, not for us, anyway. Further to my habit of writing very strange book reviews…
I started at the beginning with Fake Law, and industriously read the introduction. It’s a very odd introduction because it’s absolutely full of malicious, misleading rubbish which appears designed to foment Farage-style general rage against the EU in particular but the establishment in general, laced with a shamefully cruel form of racism.
It’s also bristling with foot notes, and when I started looking at them, I began to understand where the author, The Secret Barrister, was coming from. The whole piece was made up of headline-grabbing quotes from David Cameron, Theresa May, and all the others who were infamously in the political limelight at the time Fake Law went to press.
It’s a very quick way of demonstrating how the modern style political methods are ultimately responsible for most of the destructive ideas that are touted around about politics and the law.
The book’s subtitled The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies and if you do get stuck in, it does what it says on the tin. I came out the other end having followed through some really interesting stories that were no more than stupid-sounding headlines when they appeared in the media. It’s an absorbing read, and along the way, you’ll find out a lot about how our legal system actually works (and sometimes doesn’t) – particularly in relation to human rights, immigration, the EU, and all the topics politicians and the media have a tendency to was hysterical about.
You’ll also see that unless we get a grip on our outrageously irresponsible politicians soon, UK law really will be the ass the newspapers like to claim that it is.
Not long before that, I had read How Westminster Works …and why it doesn’t by Ian Dunt and found that pretty useful, in this post-party-political world we live in now, where we are all hard at work trying to figure out how you get rid of a totally dysfunctional government. If you’re on the same mission, I suggest you get these two valuable reference books on your bookshelf as soon as you can.
This is actually good news
If enough people grasp the fact that politics, particularly party politics as a method of democracy, is dead and buried, it might just help get us past ranting about it and move us on to doing something about it. It’ll certainly save us all wasting our time listening to front bench MPs, and thinking they might mean a single thing they say.
I can’t recommend this one because I haven’t read it yet, but I’m going to read it next…
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