When your nan can't watch Cash in the Attic. When Traitors has gone. When GB News replaces Newsnight. When Antiques Roadshow and Strictly Come Dancing disappear from the box - all so that Donald Trump can sit on some fuck off gold throne and mock Britain - d'ya think people will be happier?

Trump was found as a matter of fact (unchallenged on appeal) by a US court to be an insurrectionist

Honestly, replacing Kier Starmer at the moment would be a disastrous mistake. There is work to do sorting out more than a decade of Tory mismanagement and the government needs to get on with that without leadership distractions.

Politicians have chosen to be in the public spotlight.

We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.

But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?

It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.

The Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee has called for an independent review plus simpler reporting, better collaboration between agencies, and a full assessment of the risk that landfill tax reform will increase other forms of waste crime.

Read the committee's letter ⬇️

This is a president who has sent the military into peaceful cities run by political opponents, and who authorises the destruction of what are pretty much random boats in the Caribbean to make a point about drug gangs. This would not normally be Peace Prize behaviour.

...but predictable.

The task is to get the government to focus on delivery - increasingly good signs there - and to stand up for progressive values - a work in progress. Conspiring about leadership changes is a waste of time.