He's not pre-eminent. He's not even eminent. He IS pedestrian, dull and irrelevant.

To add to this:

www.ft.com/content/f450...

When a writer drones on about 'historically unprecedented changes to society' they have conjured into being, you can be sure they have vanishingly little familiarity with history.

"Dood-ley", please.

"Least bad" is a long way from good. Starmer is no stranger to breaking promises (as anyone who voted for him as leader on the basis of his ten pledges can attest) and the gov't needs to raise taxes. It should do so in line with its current mantra: fairness.

In the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, "He would say that, wouldn't he".

50 years ago, David Goodhart and I were fellow undergraduates, and close friends. I can scarcely believe, and am deeply saddened, that the humane person I knew then became the author of a rising tide of risible nonsense culminating in this deeply weird and utterly depressing effusion.

Forest. As a Wolves fan I have vivid memories of Nuno's team doing the double over a City team in their pomp.

What is abundantly clear, however, is that Ukrainian lives are considered expendable without a second thought in the interest of foreign policy as news-cycle psychodrama.

Their core vote - white supremacists - will be undeterred, but 'tis to be hoped that the tide will turn among the credulous but not malignant.

I would suggest it's high time you stopped believing in the BBC.