There are two ways to drop an album. There’s the Taylor Swift thing of leaving painstaking hints in Instagram stories and hidden Easter eggs to drive interest to a fever pitch. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the surprise album. Think Beyonce’s Lemonade or indeed Swift’s Folklore.
Policy making is similar. If Bank of England independence was a surprise release, then Liz Truss’s energy policy announcement is the inverse. We know it’s coming, but different versions have been briefed to different media outlets for weeks.
