Oversight comes from a 'fresh' civilian view and helps keep policing, defence, and intelligence non-partisan. The elected official's job isn’t to echo operational culture; it's to test it against law, ethics, other obligations, and democratic consent.

revenge is a dish best served on a bamboo plate, made from the bamboo choking my garden and also my life,

absolutely. i'm curious to see what happens to the plaza tbh, cause i think the beresford entrance is just so much better located and inviting that it'll be the main entrance for the station

scary to think it had been on the value engineering chopping block throughout

I thought it was a good piece, and I'm glad you published.

I've written about Zionists, racists, climate change sceptics and even Holocaust deniers and have never encountered a group quite so committed to the airing of their views. Which is an interesting phenomenon, I suppose, and may be part of the reason why the MSM has been reluctant to go there.