My horror over the Nadhim Zahawi fiasco is that we just expect this stuff now — The Times and The Sunday Times

When I think of the term “creeping normalisation”, my mind turns to the International Olympic Committee. This was an institution the world once looked up to, but by degrees it began to change. One heard rumours that members were receiving embossed pens and pendants from cities bidding to host the Games; then this morphed into flight upgrades and hotel suites. By the end, IOC members were engulfed by so many gifts that a parcel post station would be set up in their hotel so they could send all