Remember, most people in the UK only travel abroad for holidays. They don't interact will foreign health services much and seemed surprised that they exist, when they do use them. (View Post)

It’s very often the case that people from a society prepared to do X find it hard (or impossible) to imagine that other people wouldn’t do X to them at the drop of a hat. To a Putinite, if Ukraine wa… (View Post)

Which misses the point of the Process State. The idea is that humans are fallible, biased etc. so instead of human discretion, moral compasses etc. a Process is created. If the Process is complicated… (View Post)

The memorandum defining the word “he” is currently being reviewed by the legal team. So it hasn’t crossed any decision makers desks yet. (View Post)

So they were trying to give *Robbins* cover by not telling him things he didn’t want to know. And he was covering for ministers by not telling *them* things they didn’t want to know “Guangzhou is a c… (View Post)