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A Unless you're very very silly you will know that you're missing the point. Are you going for the Fairy vote?

Or, similar in tone, 'a barmaid's idea of a gentleman'.

In fairness to the recruitment department, talent, ability or even basic competence and blind support for Brexit are probably mutually exclusive.

Make your mind up.

Aren't most countries lower? (It's possible that they found that the EU average was 1.5m and decided to illustrate our superiority.)

Astounding. At a time of existential national crisis half the people support the governing party. I bet that's never happened before.

...as a footnote to that it can be pointed out that when Churchill called the four other members of his inner war cabinet together 80 years ago this month to consider whether to sue for peace or fight on to the death, two backed his position and two didn't. The division was, as it happens...

Although a lucrative career of memoir-writing and posh-nob after dinner gigs awaits.

Sadly though, the execrable Quentin Letts continues to shred The Times's reputation for cool dispassion. Jesus only knows why they signed him from the Mail - he should have gone to the Express, or become Farage's speechwriter. I turned to his column this morning, keen to discover how he...

And his daughter Lara Lettice (hats off; great name) reportedly called him a selfish ******* when he chose to tell his wife that his girlfriend was up the duff six days after her mother died and at the end of a year when she herself had been fighting cancer. A moral vacuum as someone on here said.

I understood it perfectly.

This is terribly unfair. Rishi Sunak isn't a fat Tory. He's thin. The rest of your post is reasonable though: Sunak was part of a small team of hedge fund bosses who shared nearly £100m after an audacious stock market bet that lit the touchpaper on the 2008 financial crisis. It's good to...

Hypothesis. What IS catastrophic is that our struggle to recover from the economic effects of the virus will be made far harder by the huge weakening of the public finances caused by Brexit.

Unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things, the activities of the ruling party since 2015, and the absence of any sort of opposition, means that the whole country has lost. Those younger than me will suffer most, and have to pick up the tab.