Party animals, shmarmy animals
The most talked about thing in the westminster village this week has not been the latest home office crisis, nor the re-arrest of Lord Levy, or Tony Blair’s second interview with the police but the start of Party Animals, BBC2 drama claiming to “take a look at Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world.”
I’ll spare you the nit picking, the mundane bits of day to day life there that they got worng, the stuff that you really wouldn’t care about unless you had or do work there (in large part because its done much more amusingly over here), although they are all much prettier than us, obviously.
But can I just say, before you get an overly glamourised impression of what my job used to be like:
“Talking to insiders, it soon became clear that the political world was as much about cliques, social alliances and sexual intrigue as it was about running the country and policy-making – in fact, the two are intrinsically linked.”
Not in my day it bloody wasn’t - although we did always assume the Tories were having more fun than us 
Recommending instead: The Thick of It, House of Cards, and the West Wing (obviously)
Disappointed: that its now too late to go buy tonic
Listening to: Los Angeles Waltz, Razorlight