My Cabinet Office Briefing Room for a horse

This week: the parable of the bin, how Eurovision defines Europe, and oh great Dominic Cummings is back again.

They’re going to get us all killed

Shakespeare’s first tetralogy – the cycle of histories containing the three Henry VI plays, and concluding with Richard III – begins with England at war with France. When that war is lost, the two royal houses of Lancaster and York turn on each other. When the House of York wins, the power hunger of the guy with the hun…