28 NOVEMBER 1998, Page 46

Matthew Parris

John O'Farrell's Things Can Only Get Better (Transworld, £9.99) is the funniest thing on politics I've read for ages. O'Farrell leaps from the weird and derelict wastelands of the mad days of Footite Labour to the sunny uplands of Blairite redemption, laughing and wincing all the way.