Because much harsher cuts are coming and Starmer is putting MPs on notice.

A who’s who of who’s not

‘The fox’s guide to chicken coop security’

A friend made me a Hobbes and I utterly adore him

It’s why, I suspect, people tend to like the ‘straight talking’ politicians of the Farage ilk. If the average voter engages with politics only a tiny amount a week then someone who ‘says it straight’ (despite ‘it’ being clearly bollocks) will be paid more attention.

A politics lecturer of mine once said that international relations/ law are in the ‘state of nature’.

Is that like saying ‘he sneakily said things where he was, rather than where I wanted him to be’?

It happens every time a new Taskmaster line up is announced and I’ve always been puzzled by people who proclaim their ignorance by moaning that they don’t know one or more of the new contestants. Like dude, stop boasting that you’re unaware of things.

One of Dom’s best political manoeuvres was picking a fight with BoJo’s wife and getting sacked. Meant he didn’t have to eat the catastrophic election loss and he keeps the mystique of being a pol genius while providing run of the mill takes.

‘A family man’ with ‘well behaved kids’. The Mail absolutely wouldn’t use that language if the accused was anything but white middle class.

Saw this meme a couple of years ago about this very thing