And to think Rachel Reeves is under attack for winning the wrong chess championship.

So we now live in a country where "I was just a Powellite" is considered a good defence by a party leader accused of racism.

And undermining its military allies.

Clearly ineligible for a genuine peace prize Trump is awarded a Mickey Mouse one.

Does anyone doubt that if Bernard Manning was around today he'd be a Reform supporter?

When it says "governments' subversion of democratic processes" it's not talking about Orban is it. It's accusing actual democratic governments of subverting democracy. But of course the best example of governmental subversion of democracy in the West outside Europe is Trump's America.

They are perfectly well aware that he made his political career out of the promotion of xenophobia and slyly deniable references to race. Their fear now is that his clearly evidenced racial bullying at school is going to be used to hold him to long overdue account.

I don't recall Farage ever being held to account for his "breaking point" poster in the 2016 referendum which, frankly, ought to have ended his political career. On the contrary he was politically rewarded for it.

Isn't the whole point that everyone knows that the BBC has changed since the days when it showed the Black and White Minstrels. Indeed Reform supporters constantly claim it's now completely woke. On the other hand everyone doesn't know that Farage has changed or claim he's gone woke.

In other words the journalists will behave rather like he did, but without the racism.

You'd think that a rather important red line would involve ensuring that your policies and statements were carefully crafted to hold on to as many of your supporters as possible.

A couple of decades ago people in the UK suddenly started calling railway stations "train stations" and I still can't get over it.

Yes but there's another Prof Edelman at a different university who really shouldn't be allowed to use his own name.

So she's not allowed to call herself a chess champion in spite of winning a championship or an economist in spite of studying and working in economics. However her most ghastly critics in the media are allowed to call themselves journalists.

What's more the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not THE Chancellor but simply A chancellor. There are plenty of other chancellors around in the government and universities and Reeves shouldn't forget it. So there.

This is actually a proposal to run the entire economy on the lines of the Your Party conference.

One more example of many over the years of how everyone on the front line understands the extent of a problem, its causes and probable solutions but somehow the responsible minister manages to exist in an alternative reality.

The US Government had no difficulty in identifying it as a war crime when the Kriegsmarine did it to allied seamen in WWll.