Brexit was one example, but Scottish politics is different because both British and Scottish national identities are involved.

The real problem is that people tend to trust their own “ingroup” as honest while assuming everyone else is lying.
This is true across both the left and the right.

The economic benefits from scrapping two child limit can outweigh the initial costs. Some estimate the wider economic burden of child poverty at £39bn a year – lifting 10 per cent of children out of poverty will help alleviate this.

Journalists need to do far more to expose Russian propaganda—wherever it comes from, whether from the left or the right.

It’s not a reversal that most of the public supports, but it is an essential step toward reducing child poverty.

The Government must be far bolder in making decisions like this.

Trump and Farage are on the right, and the Greens, Your Party and the SNP are doing it on the left.

There has been some pushback on the Jewellery thing; I need to wait for more details.

It's coming.

I disagree with a lot of what Labour is doing, with immigration and their failure to be honest with the public about the economy being at the top of my concerns.

That's the right policy. A big ticket rise is far, far better, for all sorts of political and economic reasons, than lots of little sneaky rises. But Labour has left it so long before accepting reality that the risk is now very severe indeed.

This is not an isolated incident; it's a consistent pattern.