there’s a telling correspondence in the way that the bbc, hiding behind entirely spurious claims of legal obligation, and democratically promoting free speech - gives a platform to fascists, and mark thompson gleefully announces that the bnp will be invited back every year - if they have seats in parliament. (i don’t remember similar claims of statutory obligation being made in the case of ira members of parliament, back in the eighties and nineties) -  a telling correspondence between this, and MPs rebelling against expenses reform - a more grubby, and mendacious spectacle is difficult to imagine, although it’s no worse than the city carrying on with its bonus award schemes, with threats that if it’s ended, then ‘the talented will leave the country’ (let the c***s go, i say, the mess we’re in now was made by these ‘talented’ thieves)

all of this has a correspondence - the unprincipled void at the heart of british public life.