It’s the reality of American politics that reality rarely matters in American politics. A sinkhole could open up on the White House lawn and Democrats would spin it as a new water feature, Republicans as evidence of a portal to Hell. Geologists would be consulted last and least, and the same can be said about statisticians who now find themselves drowned out amid the rhetoric over escalating crime in the United States.
BBC’s global ambitions risk relegating Britain to a backwater
Money is driving the Beeb to shift its news focus abroad, but it shouldn’t forget where it came from.