Yann Martell the Canadian writer for the last 3 years has been sending the Canadian pm on a fortnightly basis a book accompanied by a letter about what Yann feels this book means and what values it has .the website is called what is Stephen harper reading . I feel this is a wonderful idea the first book was leo Tolstoy the death of Ivan Ilych ,other have been Orwell, Hemingway and Alan Bennett .on the website there is a space for any replies from Stephen harper .As we re in an election year I hope some one may try to do the same thing for our pm whoever wins in the next few months .
do you think this is a good idea ?
Inspired idea for a post, Stu, but no, I prefer not to know about our politicians’ reading habits. Cynical it might be, but when does a politician ever acknowledge anything without a grubby, political ulterior motive?
But I did like the story about Yann Martell and the Canadian PM. Politicians from other countries often seem less offensive…
true our polticians seem grubby at moment ,would be nice for someone do same as martell has done