I find it a little harder, almost by the day, to understand what is going on at BBC News

This article entitled "Chancellor chooses to tax big and spend big" by the aforementioned political editor contains zero (0) instances of the £ symbol. Vibes based writing!

Perhaps "so many votes" was an aggrandisement on my part. But as you say people of various politics did vote for them "to GTTO", ie. to change the direction the Tories had taken us down. Tackling CP was part of that

Not saying it was loads of people but it was more than voted for any other party.

Land border significant, as are the two separate 9 or so miles straits of water that separate Venezuela and Trinidad. Inevitable flood of refugees. Britain's aid budget caput already. Go figure.

Dare I say that labour MPs being the kinds of people with the kinds of politics that favour *preventing child poverty* is why they got so many votes in the last election? Other Left/liberals did row in behind them for a reason even if they had doubts

And many more commonwealth partners, for whom we are often the first port of call in a crisis

For your perusal assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69135f...

The horse race stuff is important, don't get me wrong, it matters who leads our country, and how that power changes hands and is exerted but it is simply not the most important question *today*.

It's also, imv, *never* the most important question for our state broadcaster to be answering.

It's a bit mad, and I suppose the course race stuff is just easier than being across the policy and its consequences? Easier to text one guy in Downing St rather than read policy briefs from 5 think tanks and consider them.

Chris Mason looking at policy: okay but how does this impact the horse race

Law 9.12 might want a word

Being forced to add "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" to the top of every paper

Yep. It's both belief and (diverse) community together in my view - both operate in diff ways as checks on dangerous forms of individualism/self-preference

Indeed. And listed as top story on the homepage next to the news of Russia and Ukraine negotiations!

Equally - is Advent moving its entire staff abroad? Are they closing their office? Will Mr Brocklebank cease to spend any time in the UK, any of his money? Will he still be earning an income in the UK? None of these Qs are answered in the text but most still point a toward income for the exchequer

At the moment CPO is essentially reserved for "this infrastructure literally can't go anywhere else" and it needs expanding to "your lack of ambition demonstrates you don't deserve to own this land, so we need to give you the lowest sum possible to agree to bugger off".

Went to a paper a few weeks ago about 5th century Chinese dynastic chroniclers struggling to conceptualise Byzantine political structures. Nothing new under the sun.