The fact that the Cons so valued loyalty and patronage over ability explains how she got to the top role. I fully expect no lessons to be learned from this. (View Post)

Reminds me of this line from Full Metal Jacket, on the north Vietnamese stubbornly refusing to be liberated: "They'd rather be alive than free, I guess. Poor dumb bastards." (View Post)

Have we started the full-throated 'This is why the BBC is not fit for purpose!' stuff yet? How many days of decorum do the Mail/Express/Sun allow usually? (View Post)

My immediate thought also. (View Post)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66837026 Sudan’s most famous modern building aflame. Another war rages with very little notice. (View Post)