You know how important facts are sometimes unpublishable?

Facts that don't already have a political consensus on the side of expressing them don't get expressed. They get kept out of the media. Are you familiar with that? It's why alternative theories of money are never heard no matter how big the financial crashes get. It affects everything to do with what happens to kids as a result of adults' powers of decision over them, or abuses in psychiatry. Only what a preexisting interest already wants heard is publishable.

I picked up this quote from a local pamphlet from Edinburgh council on Holocausts (it should be plural) Memorial. This is a quote to remember all your life:

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou.

Bob Lawless

hurt at the top

From a voice as far from the bottom of the heap as you can get, a close confidante of a Prime Minister in his innermost team who reworked a party and won 3 elections. No aspie, and whose ability to climb high any of us could envy. Yet so familiar.

From Peter Mandelson's memoirs The Third Man. Quoted from a note he wrote to Tony Blair in 2001:

"I am not a natural politician in certain respects. I do not always mix easily. There are reasons for this, but when you have been on the receiving end of so much personal nastiness, you develop a shell and an insularity as a means of protection."