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I liked how, in her letter, she said that "It is generally agreed that (her) support was a pivotal factor in (Sunak) winning the leadership contest." In case anybody other than her has forgotten, he stood uncontested in the leadership contest. He was the only candiate who got the required 100...

Or that he should like The Arctic Monkeys! I don't want my PM to have enough time available to be into music to the level that I am. And hands off Gillian Welch Cameron! Douglas Adams was another lovely old misanthrope.

Of the ones on offer, I'll take Starmer. I don't agree with him on everything, but then none of us agree on everything and the problem with politics in the social media age seems to be that nobody will ever admit that whoever is in charge will have to make some compromise not only with both...

Of course I was generalising and of course I'm not talking about everybody who ever got sent to a private school. @Harry Wilson's tackle has put it better than I. I'm talking about an obvious sense of entitlement held by some who come out of Eton, Harrow, etc. with the expectation that they...

You're right, but it's each to their own. I'm drawn to the longer responses, but then I remember sympathising with Stewart Lee, when he was being nagged by Richard Herring in an interview to join Twitter in the early days and responded: 'But there's nothing I want to say that's less than 140...

I'm not sure that we were disagreeing. More that you were providing nuance to my ham-fisted explanation of outcome. Yes, the extreme self belief is more widespread these days, but absence of the accent makes it easier to recognise the Dunning-Kruger effect. Logically, we should vote for...

Because it's a specific type of self belief that seems unique to those who have been through the higher echelons of the British public school system, one of the life advantages that parents actually pay these 'charities' to give their offspring. Its a superficial charming confidence that can...

Don't mistake public school arrogance for competence. Yes, he seems very sure that he knows what he's doing. Patricians always do. However, he has proven beyond doubt that he will put what he believes is in the best interests of his political party ahead of what he believes is for the good of...

My daughter sent this from Sky News this morning. I know doorstepping journos are horrible, but sometimes they are very funny.