Frog soup

This week: the uncertain ontological status of Bristol, a profusion of peat bogs, and just how stupid do they think we are?

Photo © 2010 J. Ronald Lee.

One of the many (many, many) bad things about having a government as relentlessly venal and incompetent as this one is that you gradually start accepting terrible things as normal. Like the proverbial frog, which stays meekly in the slowly heating water and gradually boils to death, we’ve grown so used to a certain level of ch…