(And do this while you’re at it … because it reduces unfairness between workers and pensioners, yes, but also because gradually moving towards a de facto one-main-rate National Insurance system would make our system more rational generally.)

Καλησπέρα από την Αθήνα. A visit to the relatively new Acropolis Museum is one of the most convincing arguments, at least to my mind, for returning the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum (and their less numerous companions in the Louvre, Vienna et al). It is so clearly better as a setting. 1/

It's hard not to feel the BBC is forgetting its core purpose when you look at the relative prioritisation of a crisis in one of our two nearest neighbours, NATO's three biggest military powers and the UNSC's five permanent members ... and Celia Imrie's gastrointestinal woes.

Good Christ. The Civil Contingencies Act’s emergency powers are meant to be for actual, existentially-threatening emergencies - major threat to the UK in full-on wartime, potentially state-paralysing pandemics, that sort of thing. They’re not for clearing a case backlog.

I know it’s the *Deputy* Leadership, but: have we really still not learned that nominating people just to ‘widen the debate’ is a very bad idea?

I don’t suppose there’s much point in looking for an example of Christian, or indeed The Express, decrying Tory stitch-ups when they changed the voting system for mayors and PCCs to FPTP after nearly a quarter of a century.

I have to say I’d have hoped for better than this from the BBC. It’s perfectly clear from the facts of the case that the new MI6 chief has done nothing at all wrong, and it’s pretty unsavoury to see the headline written up as if she’s kept bad company and had to unblot her copybook.

It is remarkable how many city dwellers seem determined to try to kill off all the wider life which makes cities worth living in. I would be delighted if government changed the legal framework to make NIMBYs’ lives harder in this respect.

I don't think 'What did Leave voters (and only Leave voters) think?' is the relevant metric: yes, people who really worried about economic arguments generally voted Remain, but those Remain voters will have included plenty of 'Leavers at heart'. www.centreonconstitutionalchange.ac.uk/opinions/bre...