I am at present reading Who Runs this Place? by Anthony Sampson which was published last month. It is a great read about modern Britain. I find that I am in agreement with everything I have read in it so far. The democratice deficit, Blair and presidential attitude, the outrage of the invasion of Iraq, the irrelevance of the Monarchy to the government of the country -other than its facilitity for the the PM rubber stamp everything in the monarch's name, the pointless Tory party, the House of Lords etc. I suppose I have not read much that I did not know already - but I am not a quarter way through.
Sadly Mr Sampson, who I think was in his early seventies, died in December '04.: a sad loss.