Over the last month I've grown increasingly tired of current affairs programmes where the commentators and guests have been speculating on the speculation about the speculation about the budget and then speculated about their own speculation.

Sarah Ransome: “Jeffrey very, very clearly said to me: ‘you answer to Ghislaine… I will kill you, I will kill your parents, if you ever run, if you tell anybody, or if you go to the authorities [about] the rapes’… She orchestrated everything… Ghislaine is as responsible, if not more, than Jeffrey.”

Badenoch echoes her previous argument that the Conservatives didn't reduce immigration because they left it to the civil service.

This is as weird as saying that Ministers could leave it to the civil service to cut tax rates! Policy decisions over visa rules belong to ministers, not civil servants

In London a lot of houses built with two bedrooms have loft conversions. Because... price differentials.

In practice I think this is a 'a lot of headlines, deepens the scale of the losses in London next year, by the next general election forgotten' change.

My essential theory is that what people are mostly responding to is that because we don't build enough four-bed homes, loads of them *are* really close to that, and people a) don't absorb how big the price gap between three and four is b) that there are essentially no five plus homes.

Several people going 'it's the same as inheritance tax'. No I think that's different, people in my experience have a visceral objection to the idea of inheritance tax, not that they will pay it. Whereas the 'well, THIS isn't a mansion tax' people had no objection to the idea, just the level.