. Yes, either it's put to bed today, or it's an unavoidable and growing distraction from the business of government. Starmer either emerges wounded and diminished, or fatally wounded from t… (View Post)

They weren't pretending it's a scoop. It's rather that it's become so blatant that even the most cautious of news organisations (and note the Trump billions-of-dollars lawsuit aga… (View Post)

I see no convincing evidence of Healey being up to the job. Or even his current one. (View Post)

Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddqpr7z74yo ..Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has lon… (View Post)

On topic, Brexit did result in a pretty large increase in civil service numbers... You voted for a bigger blob. (View Post)