A well-written, clear and readable look at all the elements that make up our government in Westminster, explaining how they're set up and what the problems are. You'll learn a lot about them, and maybe even change how you think of some of them.

It's rather depressing, and in places even frightening. If you've been feeling like things are f-d, this will confirm it and tell you why they're f-d.

Despite all that, the final chapter puts forward a range of pragmatic suggestions that could improve it all -- if we collectively are persuaded they're important enough to ask for.