Crabby Pedants

A mere scientist who also happens to be the wrong kind of Lord has had the temerity to cast doubt upon Britain's ability to become a science superpower, even now that the master race has freed itself from the shackles of international collaboration, legal obligation and other insufficiently patriotic aspects of reality. Lord Krebs, whose name seems to exude a certain whiff of migrancy, co-authored a report whose very title dared to query whether the Government's rah-rah was anything more than sloganeering. Krebs criticised the proliferation of red tape which in the Brexit universe passes for removal of red tape, and raised the possibility that many trumpeted initiatives may soon be abandoned in favour of the ever-necessary tax cuts. Nevertheless, parliamentary politeness appears to have kept the authors from pointing out Her Majesty's Government's well-documented lack of acquaintance with the physical universe, where many borders have more than one side and where swingeing cuts to a particular thing tend to result in less of that thing being available. It remains as yet unclear what malign twist of Civil Service malice placed the authorship of a report on the National Johnson's administration in the hands of a zoologist whose doctoral thesis concerned territorial behaviour in one of the world's great tits.