A parliament with no one party with a clear majority also means a return to the days of more parliamentary influence on governance, where cross coalition consensus has to be built for new legislation.

While politics is more than electoral politics and must include every means by which the residents of a country engage with their government, the mainstreaming of on-ground protest and the sidelining of the electoral process speaks to a loss of institutional credibility that goes beyond a single government.

The last 20 years have seen a significant evolution in the discourse surrounding the idea of Palestinian liberation.

While the rhetoric is reminiscent of the post-9/11 days, it is useful to remember that the world is not the same.

We don't address serious geopolitical issues and focus instead on petty actions like banning Pakistani artists from Bollywood and demanding our cricketers and cricket fans be discourteous to theirs.

The meat of the book lies in the deeply intimate portrait Harry paints of his rather private, very dysfunctional family – a brother with unhealthy sibling rivalry issues, an amiable but distant father and a wicked stepmother.