I wonder, does anyone have a better descriptor for the place (wherein dwell the spin doctors, Establishment bottom-feeders and technomedia corporacrats) than “swamp”?

The question is largely rhetorical, as I have one already handy: sewer.

Every week, more stools glide proudly past on the surface of the murky waters. Some are there displaying corruption, some to continue exaggerating the threat presented by Covid19, some to represent the quiet creeping of the State as it passes yet another batch of illiberal legislation…and of late, more and more excretia are engaged in expectation management….almost as if they were saying, “You think the last lot were smelly, well wait til you get a whiff of this little doozie”.

The only way left to tackle the shit-shower is simply to list the components of The Dump in some vaguely connected order.

The most overt liar of all – and still the best weather vane of…