This ridiculous farce around Starmer leaving is the best illustration of the blob/uniparty you'll ever get. Every journalist that posts breathlessly about the "real Starmer" or how thoughtful it is to give someone a carriage clock, every braindead MP who stands up to congratulate him on "leadership" in Ukraine or something, is evidence of how much we need Farage to come in and sweep all this away. Starmer has achieved less than nothing, and our lives continue to get worse, but none of them give a toss. They will replace with Burnham and the circus of wine o'clock, nice lunches and broadsheet gossip will continue.

Something that doesn't get said enough is how tolerant and basically good-natured British people are, relative to most others globally. Often curious about other cultures, secure enough to take a joke, generally laissez-faire towards those they see as different. I can't think of many societies where the current degree of change over the last 30 years - mass migration, higher taxes, depressed living standards and wages - would still see a majority of the population willing to engage in hope with the democratic system. The spirit of that system is still strong within us, despite the British people having been let down badly over the last 30 years, none more so than today's young. I hope Reform get in and repay that faith if it comes by providing something genuinely different, because it deserves repaying.

One of the next totally avoidable Yookay scandals has to be Making Tax Digital. Completely unnecessary extra friction, replacing one of the few systems that actually works pretty well, while basically requiring people to unnecessarily pay accountants going forward. There's no rhyme or reason at all, especially when so many things really are broken in this country. Textbook Starmer policy procrastination. The good news is that the government will back down if those opposed can ever focus public attention on it. Amazing it gets so little traction at the moment.

This Seniors World Championship final is like watching a pantomime. The pockets are absolute buckets. Ronnie is going for every double he can see, Perry is regularly playing shots that I'd be disappointed with down the club, and somehow this has all made it onto Channel 5. We could have 19 frames of this. What on earth is happening?

Genuine attempt at making an argument or extended Four Yorkshiremen sketch? You decide!

Pay and conditions for those who work these "backbone of society" jobs can never improve if employers are just allowed to import an endless stream of foreign labour to compete with British workers for jobs and housing. The Labour Party used to know this - after all, it is the economic logic underpinning the concept of a trade union - but has pretended to forget because it's now more interested in mass immigration than it is in British workers. British workers should realise this and vote accordingly.

Vital work, please read and share.

This is, almost verbatim, what the idiotic Nick Clegg said when justifying not investing in nuclear. Lo and behold, fast forward to when it would have come online, and Russia invades Ukraine. Great call Nick. Do any of these "leaders" ever think about the future?

Disagree on this one. What we don't see in this video is all the people in London who sit on the other side of the argument - they are currently sat at home seething in front of their TVs and planning to get their views out onto the streets. This is likely to cost yet more police time and taxpayer's money policing protests in this city, after all the recent cash we've had to throw at (inter alia) pro-Palestine protests that have nothing to do with London. I am very uneasy generally at London being full of people who import or retain political conflicts from elsewhere, even if on this occasion they are getting along well (and most Brits of course didn't like the Ayatollah or the regime). Hosting large groups - of all persuasions - who have very visibly not left such emnities at the door while living in London is a bad thing overall for the security of Britons here, and suggests that - despite governments harping on about it constantly - not much actual "integration" has happened at all. Or, to put it another way: people praising this video as "Brilliant Bonkers Britain" etc can hardly complain the next time it kicks off, over a foreign conflict, between two large groups living in London/elsewhere in Britain. That is simply the other, equally inevitable, side of the same coin.

How can the UK's supposed leading economic publication run something this stupid? Since 1997, we have ramped up immigration, from Eastern Europe and then the third world, massively. In that time, our economy has been basically wrecked. Housing made unaffordable, real wages down, tax burden up, student loans introduced, productivity utterly shot. Is nobody at the FT interested in looking into why this might be? Surely the default assumption, given what I have written above, must be that immigration is bad for the economy?

This is naive in the extreme. Her party introduced the Plan 2 loan and £9k fees. Do we expect them to learn any lesson if we just vote for them again after one election?

The irony being that an "open and frank debate" is exactly what he's keen to forestall. If you don't use Sunder-approved language and therefore the Sunder-approved frame, your ideas are illegitimate. I cannot wait until these people are defunded.