ray hutstone wrote:Cummings behaviour has been so hapless that many are beginning to wonder if he possesses anything resembling a brain at all. The master at reading and manipulating public opinion is looking rather foolish. What fun!
The thing is, ask the wrong question and you get the wrong answer. Try putting Cummings alongside Christine Calderwood, Neil Ferguson, Rosie Duffield, Chris Cuomo, Prince Joachim et al, and the answer is, like Poe's purloined letter, hidden in plain sight. (Clue: it's not haplessness.)
Re #713:
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14. He explained that he'd warned about a coronavirus years ago in his blog.
15. Then it was revealed he actually secretly amended old blogs after he'd returned from Durham.'
Yes, if only, as with the Ministry of Truth, you could amend and reprint, and pop the original in the memory hole for incineration.