Whereas I'm not in the least bit surprised. There is no magic door. There are no ninjas. (View Post)

It needn't even be that. It's a much less Nazi version of the "working to the Fuhrer" dynamic. In all organisations, there are things that everybody knows even though nobody ever … (View Post)

To be clear, he in this context is Olly Robbins. Something has clearly gone horribly wrong here, even if the PM didn't know, and at some point that becomes the PM's problem. (View Post)

You want a leader? Someone women want and men want to be? The ultimate gentleman spy? Irresistible to women, deadly to his enemies, a legend in his own time? Austin Powers is standing for Greenwich C… (View Post)

Thanks- makes sense. Though isn't the implication of our Gulf-dependence that even that process struggles to make sense in the UK in pure business terms? One of the lessons I took from the pande… (View Post)