Tentatively Approaching the Reality-Based Universe

Those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear; which doubtless explains why the Department for Emaciation, Flooding and Rationing of Availables (Defra) has refused a Freedom of Information request about the dietary consequences of leaving the EU without a deal. The request, by the Green MP Caroline Lucas, was dismissed with the time-honoured excuse about jeopardising the non-existent negotiations with our oppressors in the Brusso-Strasbourg megabunker who only read the news if it's delivered in foreign; but the spokesbeings also cited the more rational grounds that ministers can see a strong public interest in keeping the public as ignorant as possible. Granting the rather specialised definition of "public interest" in the Westminster dialect, this surely demonstrates an encouraging degree of realism.