ray hutstone wrote:Hislop, Toynbee, blah, blah, blah. Shoot the messenger again.
'Messenger'? You couldn't find a less accurate description of Hislop and Toynbee; their partiality is as well concealed as a caterwauling soprano in a choir of solid basses. In any case, I suspect from the quality of the piece the job was given to a junior: it's strung together from anonymous secondary sources ('was reported to be', 'said to be') and punctures its own snootiness ('Drivers who often don't speak English') with basic spelling errors ('drivers are sent
their [my italics] for the compulsory Covid testing'). Either that or it's fallen further than I imagined.