A cynic might say this was the act of some people realizing that their jobs are on the line, less than a week after the Bank was pressured into an externally-led review of its forecasting failings.

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/politico-pro-central-banker-20230623/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

A cynic might say you can afford to be extravagant when you have only five employees.

Source: https://kidotalkradio.com/idahos-most-generous-company-throws-enormous-party-photos/

As the great cynic, journalist H.L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/11/ilhan-omar-is-the-democrats-problem-not-kevin-mccarthys/

"Call me an old cynic, but could this silence be in any way related to the squillion-dollar deal that he and Meghan have with the streaming giant?"

Source: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulous/10362619/prince-harry-news-meghan-markle-charles-coronation/

The cynic in me says that this is just another revenue-generating enterprise, but it is unlikely that any traveller on this continually-roadworked trunk route would be able to reach that phantasmagorical number.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23438218.letters-shame-kirk-turning-back-deprived-areas/?ref=rss