Welcome to the inaugural post of Bookbenchers where we ask backbench MPs what they read when they’re not white paper-pushing.
Kicking things off is Steve Baker, former engineer officer in the RAF and currently MP for Wycombe ā when he isn’t helping run the educational charity The Cobden Centre, or skydiving.
Steve,
Some excellent choices.
I am a godless heathen, but CS Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy are extremely fine (I firmly believe that That Hideous Strength is the best book title ever!*).
I am also pleased to see that you intend to tackle Green’s Working Class Patients and the Medical Establishment. As you may know, it is a book that has informed many of my thoughts on how a freer society, based on mutualism, might also practically deliver cheap, efficient critical “public” services.
I shall put some of the others down on a list, for when I finally get around to reading some political and economic philosophy…!
Regards,
DK
* It is used in a fine Waterboys song entitled Savage Earth Heart (also a good title):
“Then I was taken smoothly by the vulture of the soul /
the hideous strength that numbs the tongue /
Oh and he led me, poor shivering cinder through the fields of hell /
to doubt my friends and to hate myself…”