Three. You're forgetting billionaires.

I disagree. You're ignoring the fundamentals and that's where the problem lies. It's not the GOP that's the issue. It's capitalism, to which BOTH Republicans and Democrats subscribe, just two flavours of the same ice cream. Until everything stops being driven by capital (money), nothing will change.

Answer: whoever it is will surely be building a large ballroom to host the (ahem) parties. Oh, wait a minute...

Not sure about that. I suspect Trump will go from a "picture of health" to stone cold dead in a matter of hours. It's what's known as the Republican remedy, proven efficacious in its most recent application (see Epstein, Jeffrey). Decks then cleared for the next fascist, public distracted (again).

It's your last two words (sick joke) that's the nub of it now. America is no longer a serious nation; "they" are literally laughing right in your faces, yet still no one thinks it's time to rise up and act. The world, one way or another, is moving on and leaving apathetic America to its own fate.

It would appear that Starmer has achieved a rare double: fellating Donald Trump and giving Steven Yaxley Lennon a reach-around simultaneously. No wonder it's called labour.

Isn't everything, these days? Such a pointless charade as even he must know the truth will out at some point soon. And, equally, when it does nothing will change. A people who tolerate a traitor for President are unlikely to have the appetite to overthrow a paedo, after all.

Trump's lawsuits are the pursuit of self-enrichment via intimidation. The BBC simply needs to let him bring it on. Does anyone really think he wants his incitements of January 6th forensically re-examined in full public view in a court of law, with the tide of support already turning against him?

It's an interesting question, isn't it? He's the obvious candidate, but the past year has served him no better than it has his boss, and he may be tarred by the Trump brush in ways that weren't anticipated. We shall see, I guess.

It wouldn't shock me. He's always been the oligarch's outrider, the battering ram used to hammer the stupid into handing over power. That job is now done and as an exposed paedo, he serves no further purpose. Watch them replace him with someone far more "presentable", and far more dangerous.

No. Nor, frankly, do I particularly want to.

Until - and this statement isn't meant to be "party political" - there's a decisive break with the intellectual underpinnings of capitalism, nothing is going to change economically. Both major parties are chained to the same intellectual currency; thus neither acts to break prevailing trends.

You could also argue that they made a manifesto promise that even a cursory examination of the evidence indicated was highly unlikely they'd be able to keep. Parties (of all colours) want trust from the public, yet do little or nothing to earn it. Labour may be right, now but has made its own bed.

I can only speak for myself, but I haven't forgotten a single friend lost to AIDS in the late 80s/early 90s. Only a few days ago, I told my son - at length - their names and their stories. That way, hopefully, in some small measure they live on.

I saw it spread out in full (as it was then) on the National Mall in, from memory, 1992 or 1993. It was and remains the most moving thing (and the greatest work of art, a statement for which I make no apologies at all) that I've ever seen. I wanted to burst into tears too, so I know how you feel.

More to the point, Trump has no power to "summon" her or anyone else, so why would she go? No surprise that Trump tried it on. Far more worrying if she complied.

Personally, I don't want to see Mike Johnson voted out of office. I want to see his balls being ripped off by an angry crowd at the foot of the Washington Monument, on live TV.

Just saying.

Were you expecting cowed and complicit paedophile apologists to use honest language to describe the behaviour of the people who own them?

Asking for a friend.