The PM went on holiday for a few days. It didn’t need to look like a political crime scene. But as usual, the cover-up made everything 10 times worse
Throughout history, the world’s greatest minds have attempted to simplify Ockham’s razor.
William of Ockham’s principle was a fairly simple thing – “entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily”. Isaac Newton used it to apply to competing scientific theories. Robert Hanlon riffed off it to sum up political blunders: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. Which brings us to modern politics, where the simplest interpretation – “cock up over conspiracy” – reigns supreme.
Nixon wasn’t done in by the crime but the cover-up. And…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I saw something similar to this on the news recently. It was heartbreaking, dehydrated and thirsty koalas reaching up for water, not unlike humans. Read some of the comments re the Australian article, where they talk about ‘fear and bewilderment’ by the koalas. Bewilderment! My heart broke and my stomach turned just to read it. 😦
https://www.insider.com/koala-flagged-down-cyclist-for-water-australia-heat-wave-2019-12