Thank you for your service to early morning regional radio Sir!

Oh yes I feel for you there, as I'm one too. But this rare time I actually had to get up and talk and make sense felt very different from wakeful dozing under the sheets.

I also argue that liberal democracy is central to our modern understanding of the profession of arms because it preserves professional ethics in a way that other systems cannot. Serving in an illiberal state means abandoning the profession itself. 5/

Vommit!

I used to love them but now they make me commit in seconds. Tragic. Ageing.

John Kay used to say that whenever his neighbour at a dinner party found out what he did they always asked him what he thought would happen to house prices.

harsh

The first to do it could have still gone with the story on the institutional failure, without leaking, notifying the OBR privately. What assholes that they did not do that.

Obviously the motive is 'we can get a reputation as the guys who will try to crack any online leak protocols and get you the stuff x mins early, so make sure you buy our content.'

It's a shame that journalists who realised that the guess the URL game would work took advantage of it. So very little was gained it's depressing that they nonetheless went ahead and leaked the stuff.

It's a shame that he's gone as he has otherwise done a great job and led the OBR through tricky times [most notably through the attempt by Truss and Kwarteng to sideline it].

The report into the error notes that you get the publications process you pay for. You can criticise the OBR for not realising that it should bid for more money from HMT to fund that part of its activities better, but you can also criticise HMT for not realising it should pay the OBR more.