Disclosure: I have deliberately gone politically independent because I disagree with the whole press persona thing, but I recognise this is not the normal thing to do

RIGHT so I think the press persona thing needs to be looked at because there are two loopholes here.

1. If a press organisation is clearly and obviously a mouthpiece for a political organisation and contains the same people writing the same old shit about the same old parties, there's no interesting way to link that organisation to the party because the people involved will squeal 'ahhh that's non canon' and then get away with their shithousery forever. This is stupid and needs to be looked at.

2. Friedmanite just got caught bribing people for leaks, and his response is to "retire" his press persona and start a new one so that, presumably, the whole bribery thing can't be brought up again and essentially dies. This is hilariously stupid, because what's the point of doing good press (or good politics) if you can just switch in and out of different """"""""""personas"""""""""".

Basically I think the value of doing good work is debased by these loopholes and they should be closed.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.