The Abuse Trail

How our warnings about evidence-free policies turned us into targets

In the next few months, as summer rolls on, we will try to summarise the abuse we have endured in the last four years for doing our jobs.

The reasons are diverse.

On a personal level, abuse is not pleasant. When family members are aware of it, that’s even worse. When you are fired from a position you have held for a decade, that’s also difficult to deal with. What takes the biscuit, however, is having to deal with flip-floppers, ignorant bloggers and MP-sponsored personal attacks and, in the end, find that these folk have to admit that, yes, they have mishandled things while lying, covering their mistakes by deleting messages dealing with public business.  The underlying reason we think it that they lost their heads, listened to clowns but wanted to be there, to be seen, like Narcissus falling in love with his image. We all know how that ended.

The deletion or covering one’s tracks, which we have documented several times in TTE, is the most telling of the lot as it implies that something…