Buy The Usual Channels: Inside the Mysterious World of Political Whips by Sebastian Whale (ISBN: 9781785908545) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Buy The Usual Channels: Inside the Mysterious World of Political Whips by Sebastian Whale (ISBN: 9781785908545) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

The whips’ office is another Westminster institution that suffers from a lack of direction.

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Buy The Usual Channels: Inside the Mysterious World of Political Whips by Sebastian Whale (ISBN: 9781785908545) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Westminster has always attracted an outsized number of larger-than-life politicians who love the limelight. But there is one group of MPs who generally avoid attention, while playing an essential role...

Politico journalist and author Sebastian Whale answers the Jabugo book club's questions about his reading life.

Jumping ship.

In case you wanted to know.

Breakfast At El Pica.

Some festive whipping cheer.

Falling back in love with a neglected pastime.

And deal with the world as it really is.

Fun and frolics in opposition.

When Gavin Williamson got the better of me.

They're masters of the dark political arts who know the peccadilloes of every MP. Now, a new book reveals how the Whips of Westminster get what they want...

And why Johnny reminds me of Jacqui.

That is the whipping question.

Sebastian Whale has produced a well researched and accurate account of how the whips’ office works

In this episode, we talk to political journalist Seb Whale about his new book, The Usual Channels, which reveals the hidden world of Westminster’s whips. Seb charts how party discipline has evolved –…

Leaving the EU has cost British fishermen fish, money and jobs.

Images consistent with fire from magnesium-based device, suspected to be part of Russian sabotage plot

And trying to make sense of it.

The articles that inspired a career change.

Find me at El Pica.