Double down, Doublethink...
Shameless, tawdry, unseemly. Doris's performance in the House this afternoon dredged even murkier depths than is customary for him. As expected, what sight we were allowed into the Sue Gray report was limited, cursory and generalised, and as such only hinted at the crux and substance of the final report, the full publication of which is currently delayed - voluntarily - while the Met investigates twelve instances of wrongdoing in Downing Street. The downcast and stony faces of his front bench behind him, mute testimony to his avoidance of the truth in his dealing with House and his constant broken-record doubling down on his current version of the truth. This mendacious, dissembling Prime Minister frankly displays all the characteristics of a psychopath: constantly, insincerely and tenaciously doubling down on his untruths week after week, even when those untruths are self-contradictory and verge on doublethink. He hides behind the smoke of the yet-to-be published report and the Me