The appointment was about Trump. Mandelson was connected through Epstein. Not defending Starmer, but that was the intention. Anyone claiming this is the biggest political scandal in 50 years needs to book a head-wobble.

I just love this track. It might be my favourite. I was matey with Gary Marx (Mark) back in the noughties and I would bang on how this was peak Sisters.

That album is as good as Disintegration, if not better. It’s up there with the likes of Spirit of Eden and Like Clockwork.

This and Kate’s ‘December will be magic again’ are my favourite Xmas songs. With a doff of the cap to Jona Lewie.

He’s dreadful. Pitifully bland.

Yet, why does it remain the huge, silent elephant in our political discourse? Why does the debate get shut down so firmly?