This weekend, Gary Gibbon - Political Editor of Channel4 News - gave a report on unrest on the Tory backbenches.
According to Gibbon, David Cameron - who is without the luxury of the sweeping electoral mandate - has been dropping into the MPs' tearooms in what has been dubbed a "twiglets and chardonnay charm offensive" following a series of unhappy occurences in the form of policy u-turns on forestry and prison reform, among other things.
According to backbenchers taking the role of talking heads for the report, traditional Tory issues like Europe, crime, and defence are being sidelined and things like electoral reform - which one senior backbencher described as meaning the Party "would never hold power outright again" - are taking centre stage.
And let's not forget the murmurings of an electoral pact on the horizon.
Needless to say, morale in the Tory ranks is low. And you can tell. How blue I felt watching all this. The long, dramatic pauses when Mr Gibbon asked Patrick Mercer what the mood was like on the backbenches...
*tick tock tick tock* (this is primetime, Patrick)
What? Oh yes, the mood. Err... Fragile.
It gets a person down. Until, that is, you see the big yellow eye of hope.
That's right this big yellow eye of hope. Dark though it is.
Go on. Click the picture. It gets bigger! Can you imagine how big it was on my telly? Unmissable.
OK. So it's not actually supposed to connote hope. Almost the opposite, I suppose. Actually this big yellow eye represents the disturbingly close interest the state takes in our everyday lives, the encroachment of surveillance culture and the erosion of our civil liberties in the UK.
Dominic Raab certainly knows how to publicise a book. You're going to be on the Channel4 News speaking to Gary Gibbon. Get your thoughts in order. And your books! Get your books in order. Now, where are my books? Oh yes! Big Brother Watch, with a contribution from none other than Dominic Raab. That'll do the trick, and not just one but two copies. Nice work Dominic, we here in publicity at Biteback are proud of you.
Now then, you out there, is there some way we can have the words of Dominic's chapter "Liberty lost, democracy denied" not-so-subliminally projected onto the camera lens when he does his next talking head bit? That would be subtle too, right?
In the interest of clarity, Big Brother Watch has little to do with unrest on the Tory backbenches - but it is available here, priced £9.99.