Holiday reading instead of debating twin crises

ALTHOUGH there's been a demand for a recall of Parliament - which predates last week's exposure of a airliner terror plot - it seems the Government's business managers will have none of it.

Which means MPs become even more irrelevant, not being able to debate the threat from Muslim fundamentalists or the Middle East crisis until October.

So do we need 646 MPs if they can't at least discuss what was called last week a plot to create "mass murder on an unimaginable tale." 

Menawhile, MPs who have packed their Factor 15 and wimming costumes have made Dan Brown's best seller The Da Vinci Code their top read this summer. Second is William Hague's acclaimed biography of William Pitt the Younger and third on the list is Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

Peers have at the top of their reading list Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 followed by the Da Vinci Code.

What an eclectic bunch they are!