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That's heavy holiday reading

Aug 5 2008 By Denis Kilcommons

WHEN I take a break my holiday reading includes thrillers, historical novels, maybe a comedy. Something light in which to wallow and escape.

A Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow or Elmore Leonard. Perhaps a Jeeves adventure by P G Wodehouse for something delightfully daft.

But have you seen what poor old Conservative MPs have been told to read while away from Westminster?

They have all been given a list of 38 recommended tomes chosen by foreign affairs spokesman Keith Simpson, with the approval of Tory leader David Cameron. They include political philosophy, history, psychology and other worthy subjects. Not an Ed McBain or J K Rowling in sight.

I thought the idea of MPs getting away from it all to a beach or the country was to relax and recharge their batteries.

Laying back in a deckchair with knotted hankies on their heads and enjoying themselves by doing nothing but allowing their brain cells a little pleasurable enjoyment.

I can’t see them doing that when they are expected to wade through Vote For Caesar: How The Ancient Greeks And Romans Solved The Problems Of Today by Peter Jones.

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