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Book Review: Yes, Prime Minister - the diaries of the Rt Hon James Hacker, Volume 1, edited by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay
I was looking for some easy reading in the days leading up to Christmas, and I discovered that according to Goodreads, I read the Complete Yes Minister in 2014. Clearly there would have been a plan to follow up with the rest of the series, but then stuff happened, and here we are, at the end of 2020.
As usual, it feels as fresh as ever; indeed, the opening chapter, Party Games, in which Hacker is elevated to the office of Prime Minister, involves Hacker feeding the press misinformation on Brussels proposals for the Eurosausage as part of his successful campaign. Oh, happy days, when people could recognise satire and fiction. It feels to me that the "editors" occasionally went overboard with their explanatory footnotes, but there are really no duds in this collection of stories.
I was looking for some easy reading in the days leading up to Christmas, and I discovered that according to Goodreads, I read the Complete Yes Minister in 2014. Clearly there would have been a plan to follow up with the rest of the series, but then stuff happened, and here we are, at the end of 2020.
As usual, it feels as fresh as ever; indeed, the opening chapter, Party Games, in which Hacker is elevated to the office of Prime Minister, involves Hacker feeding the press misinformation on Brussels proposals for the Eurosausage as part of his successful campaign. Oh, happy days, when people could recognise satire and fiction. It feels to me that the "editors" occasionally went overboard with their explanatory footnotes, but there are really no duds in this collection of stories.