Mr. Weiner said cheap rents for rich people made for embarrassing tabloid headlines.
This sometimes makes for embarrassing, even shambolic, proceedings as esoteric policy amendments are scrutinised, debated and voted.
But it is the detailed, comparative statistics on gender equality on the bench that will make most embarrassing reading for the Ministry of Justice.
The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECDD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review says that the Pew and DOJ reports make "embarrassing reading for those who spend their time trying to make it appear as if America is in the middle of a gun-crime wave".
Pensions expert Tom McPhail, of Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "This analysis makes embarrassing reading for the politicians who have been responsible for the UK's pensions over the past 25 years.
They make for chirpy reading.
This can make for fascinating reading.
The book can make for dry reading.
Such developments make for grim reading.
