A reading list for new councillors?

The Economist recently regretted that in the General Election, the main parties lacked big new ideas. It looked back to 1997 and Will Hutton's The State We're In. And 1979 when Sir Keith Joseph gave his officials a reading list to help them understand the ideology of the new Government.

From time to time and far less ambitiously, I've gently suggested some browsing for my fellow Labour councillors.

We now have a new national political landscape and seventeen new Haringey councillors. So I wonder whether HoL members could come up with a reading/viewing list for them - and even for those re-elected. How about a couple of essential and above all practical suggestions for books, articles and of course, useful blogs and online videos?

Top of my own current list is Heather Brooke: The Silent State. Which should be compulsory ─ if only for people to think through what they disagree with and why.

(Tottenham Hale ward councillor)