Book review

  How to run the European Parliament by Mariyln Political   This concise 93 page pamphlet book is well worth reading. It will take you an hour. It is full of useful gems.   It’s a practical how to get ahead as a MEP guidebook. The firm behind it, http://www.marilynpolitical.com/,  have packed a lot of useful … Read more

Do the Words Give the Game Away I have just re-read Christopher Buckley’s “Thank you for Smoking” and completed “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Dr.  Siddhartha Mukherjee Pulwitzer, who is an oncologist (a doctor of Cancer). I read Dr.  Siddhartha Mukherjee Pulwitzer Prize winning book because I wanted to better … Read more

There are a few books your lobbyist will have read. If they have not, my advice, turn around around and walk out the door. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion should be well thumbed on your lobbyist’s bookshelf.     Modelling the best  Lobbyists jobs amounts to helping their clients influence policy and law … Read more

Last night, I attended the book launch for  Anita Pollack’s  launch for her latest book on the history of the UK Labour Party in the European Parliament from 1997 to 2010. Richard Corbett MEP and Ernst Stetter from FEPS.   I had the pleasure of working for Anita in the hey days of New Labour … Read more