Yes/No.

I like this.

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Here are some emails from the MHCLG while Angela Rayner was DPM/Housing Secretary showing the department acting unlawfully by not treating an FOI request as "applicant blind" but instead seeking clearance from SpAds and the newsdesk on both my FOI and then an internal review.

Interesting piece. But it's not just about channels, it's about a larger crisis in government comms - and in society - which is not a new thing and goes back perhaps 15 years. Put simply, the Whitehall comms machine has lost the ability to win arguments.

To my mind, just from listening, they campaigned continually to guard against anything other than a very pure idea of Brexit.
Particularly remember Gove all over the radio at Christmas 2016. Very little sense of leaving wriggle room for compromise.
Main thing - stop any reconsideration/doubts.

They should talk to a few of them. (Not PIMCO. They can keep their nitro-glycerine where it belongs).

This is an excellent candidate for 'guess the initial topic of the thread from the final three bskeets'.
I am not criticising. Very enjoyable.

Maybe slightly off topic, but the government doesn't seem to have the ability to discern when an issue has attracted special pleading and should be ignored from when they are being warned it will gum up the works or be fiscally counter-productive!
Treasury has circled the wagons. More than usual.

She needs to minimise the knock-on impacts especially economic or where it hits other areas where they need policy wins. So say radical pension changes hurts NHS retention.
The problem is that they didn't do that for several changes last time out - so for example farmers. An unholy mess.

My adviser friends say money is flying out of pensions, because of a threat to tax free cash. Though reading all the 'sources familiar with', 'well placed' stuff', there don't seem to be any, er, sources.
Yet her not ruling it out is a mistake. In summary, she can't win, but also isn't very good.

Imagine what American media would be saying if this was happening in an EU state

There is lots to be said about the problem of distrust in politics, but the obvious reason that Reform have been able to exploit the opportunities of anti-politics is that they - and Farage in particular - have met no meaningful challenge on the legacy of Brexit.

“But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. As viewers of King and Conqueror will know, William was able to surprise Harold by crossing the Channel in his hovercraft, and the English king was already exhausted, having recently seen off a Martian invasion.

A thing I think doesn't get internalized enough in the discourse of the European subjugation of the Americas is that there was no way for contact between Europe and those continents to not end in abject disaster for indigenous Americans because of disease burden.

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

In 1979 the Gossamer Albatross became the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel. Bryan Allen was its pilot and engine.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bryan!
Born October 13, 1952

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

Billion tries.

nope, not in a million tries

“ …the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.”