You don't need to launch a full bore defence of liberal internationalism to be able to question the ethics of sending refugees to their certain deaths.

Their should be a law that any column published by someone who praised the Truss budget should have to have a disclaimer at the bottom reminding readers of that.

Next time I get a cold, I'm going to betray it by having a Lemsip and some ibuprofen.

Also we have a lot of historic data showing that broad based tax rises do not lead to this kind of backlash. It's the taking away of something from a specific group of people that everyone likes that is the issue with WFA.

Hannan's quote is a classic - he doesn't know if she's committed a massive crime but nevertheless has decided the punishment is invalid.

I’m working on the assumption that at the moment they are
(a) showing they have exhausted every other option (spending cuts) qand
(b) hoping against hope that something might show up

The top ten richest people in the world have lost a collective $42 billion today so far.