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Holding politicians to account for a mess they could have avoided is not ‘weaponising’ anything – it is just asking them to do their jobs properly
We live in a time of so much insecurity But is there anything we can expect from this increasingly ominous-looking winter with any certainty?Joel, by email
Events may overtake us, but the cliches we use to describe them are frequently, one might even say reassuringly, predictable. I was thinking about this while reading an interview in the Sunday Times magazine this weekend with the lawyer Stella Moris, AKA Sara Gonzalez Devant , AKA the mother of Julian Assange’s two youngest children. (Like Boris Johnson, it is impossible to get a precise figure on how many children Assange has. Funny how a shared peccadillo can really highlight the similarities between two seemingly very different people.) Continue reading...