Britain sends four officers down a political rabbit hole.

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Image by: Knelstrom Media. Britain sends four officers down a political rabbit hole By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: A fifteen-year-old schoolboy, a Conservative councillor, a photograph featuring rabbit ears and four police officers. Somewhere in the West Midlands, British law enforcement has become entangled in an incident that reads like a rejected comedy script.

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The world’s most peaceful battering ram clears its throat.

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Image by Knelstrom Media. The world’s most peaceful battering ram clears its throat By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: Mark Rutte stood before the microphones and declared that NATO is “a defensive alliance. We will never attack anybody.” It was one of those polished modern political statements that hang in the air with remarkable confidence,

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Every meal starts in a field

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Every civilisation eventually discovers the same uncomfortable truth. Supermarkets are not farms. Packaging is not agriculture. Loyalty cards do not photosynthesise. Every meal, whether served on fine china beneath crystal chandeliers or eaten from a paper tray on a retail park bench, begins in a field. Somewhere, often out of sight and increasingly out of mind, somebody has spent months gambling against weather, disease, markets and government policy so somebody else can complain that carrots have become twenty pence more expensive.

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The revolving door of Downing Street’s travelling circus

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Britain has burned through prime ministers with the efficiency of a vape shop changing staff after a failed stocktake. Seven leaders in ten years. The sort of turnover usually associated with collapsing restaurant chains beside dual carriageways. Westminster now feels less like a government and more like an insurance company midway through a police investigation.

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