Quibbling with Nigella? Brave woman.

Oh, mine have just stolen some of ours

I can certainly point to people who claim on the doorstep that they’ve always voted Labour, but you go back a bit and find out that they were Tory in 2015

It is a terrible phrase for anyone with his academic career to use. Paternalistic and indicative of a gatekeeping mentality. Don’t expect any social mobility.

And it is not in Farage's interest to do this. Intellectualising populism destroys it. It has to be high level and based on vibes, not evidence.

Look, this was the game plan with the Miliband owls for everyone policy. Think of the numbers that would have done.

So, this policy is evidenced and makes financial sense, as well as being humane.

If you think that helping kids out of poverty is a bad thing, then have a look in the mirror.

But none of that generates an easy headline.

And this isn't about massive families. 62% of those affected have three children. Only about 12% have five or more children and that amounts to about 56,000 families across the country.

For 1% of the social security bill, we can actually save money across the piece. We don't think outside the silo often enough.

We also spend an inordinate amount of time pulling people out of the river without ever going upstream to work out why they fall in.

This tracks them and defines them across their entire life – which is, by the way, shorter. That’s not to say that you can’t start in poverty and do well for yourself – we all know the stories of those who have succeeded – but those are the exceptions, which is why we know them.

Of course, it goes without saying that the Roman state had a welfare system from around 20AD with corn distribution (Cicero mocks it for being cynical!) And a taxation system so established that even Jesus told people to pay it.

She's just incapable of knowingly being right.

Maybe she thinks it was a public-pilate partnership.

Not enough horsewhippings in modern politics.

Emperors were literally toppled for not providing those essentials.

I wonder if she's ever thought what all those tax collectors are doing in the Bible