A forensic if mordant look at how the “Chinese spies in Parliament” case collapsed. I don’t think it was lies, more a system that’s eating itself. Legal, political, and economic silos each told their own version of the truth until coherence disappeared into the vortex. Between Cummings’ claims, Martin’s rebuttals, the embassy standoff, and Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Starmer, it’s a living portrait of Britain’s institutions locked in tension. Prosperity versus protection; diplomacy versus denial. But it doesn’t mean the system is broken; it might be working exactly as intended. Get the money in at all costs?
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Systems in Tension: Britain’s China Crisis Spy Farce and the Architecture of Denial
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