On constitutional Parliament v The Government who rules, it is The Crown in Parliament which is why the Queen calls somebody to form 'Her Majesty's Government'.

It's all well and good to discuss British manufacturing industry but we hardly have any such thing. People seem to imagine we are still in the 20th century. Jim is right.

Given the information available about Staines via Wikipedia, I think one would be unintelligent if one took anything he wrote or published at face value. Clearly, the character of the messenger is sometimes important in evaluating whether the 'message' he delivers will be fair and accurate. I note that Staines has apparently been advising the Russian embassy on how to use social media.


I didn't know that he was an Irish citizen.