We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminatingIt is a fascinating diaryIt is shorter than Barbara Castle'sand although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is distinctly funnier' - Lord Allen of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at the Home Office) in The Times 'It has an entertainment and educational value which is unique It is uproariously funny and passes the acid test of becoming more amusing at every subsequent readingI will go so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, Messrs Lynn and Jay have created something as immortal as PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves' - Brian Walden in The Standard