Ben & Jerry's has something of a history of exploiting migrant workers including illegal migrant child workers. They are also apparently rather more hostile to Israel than they are to Russia. (View Post)

That Raab is somewhere between abrasive and a bully, very possibly incompetent and certainly unwise doesn't preclude the civil servants he dealt with being incompetent or for that matter deliber… (View Post)

We know that there's plenty of incompetent civil servants in Whitehall. Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Reynolds_(civil_servant) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Case Now … (View Post)

Its possible that Raab is a bully and that the civil servants were useless wimps. (View Post)

Bullies and arseholes and tolerated even lauded if they are successful. See Alex Ferguson or Gordon Ramsey as examples. (View Post)