Congrats to all of our authors who have been promoted in David Cameron's reshuffle! Why not congratulate them all
by, erm, buying their books?
In Tommy This 'an Tommy That: The Military Covenant, Dr Andrew Murrison,
who joins the Ministry of Defence as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
uses his perspective as a senior military doctor, Iraq veteran and, latterly,
frontline politician, to dissect the events of the past ten years and set them
in a historical context. Murrison charts the way in which societal and political
changes have impacted on the wellbeing of uniformed men and women both within
the theatre of war and beyond it. Using historical examples he chronicles the
nation's changing sense of obligation towards the military, charts how the
state has been shaped by it and looks at the future of the covenant.
In Masters of Nothing, Matthew Hancock, who takes up the position of
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the departments of Education and BIS, tells
the story of how a failure to understand human nature helped cause one of the
biggest crises in the history of capitalism. Of the extraordinary extremes we
witnessed from the socalled Maters of the Universe - their greed, recklessness
and irrationality. Of how that failure led to policy mistakes that magnified
the crisis. And of how the crisis will happen again unless we get to grips with
it. Nadhim Zahawi MP co-authors.
In 22 Days in May, David Laws, who becomes Education and Cabinet
Minister, gives the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the
negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition
government in May 2010, along with an essential description of the early days
of the government. David Laws was one of the key Lib Dem MPs who negotiated the
coalition deal, and the book includes his in-depth, behind the scenes, account
of the talks with the Conservative and Labour teams after the General Election.
Elizabeth Truss joins the Department of Education as
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State. In After
The Coalition, to which Elizabeth was a contributor, five new Tory MPs, newly elected in 2010, write about the
future of the United Kingdom and the future direction of the Conservative
Party. They joined together to ask what challenges the Party has to face, and
to investigate the ideas of the future that will seek to overcome them.
Greg Knight, author of Dishonourable
Insults, becomes a Government Whip. Dishonourable
Insults is a hilarious collection
of one-hundred years of political invective and insult. From Churchill to
Cameron, Balfour to Brown, Curzon to Clegg, Douglas-Home to Duncan Smith,
Healey to Howard, Macaulay to Milliband, Greg Knight has once again compiled a
witty collection of barbed insults and invective that will provide amusement
and become a delightful source of reference for anyone searching for the
ultimate put-down.
Reshuffle
- September 06, 2012 10:48
- Holly Smith