Now that the world has its first trillionaire, it is obviously true that capitalism does drive wealth creation. Just not for you and me.

According to his resignation speech, Starmer wanted his government to provide 'wealth and prosperity for all'. That's not how capitalism works.

Labour Party staff have a proven track record of undermining leaders they perceive as 'too left wing'. While Burnham hardly boasts unsullied socialist credentials, he'd better watch his back if he gets the job.

The winter fuel and two-child benefit cap U-turns; the disability benefits cuts; the freebies scandal; the Mandelson appointment; the erosion of jury trials; branding peaceful protestors 'terrorists'. The Starmer years have not been a period of exemplary progressive government.

Britain looks set to get its fifth unelected leader since 2016 this week. Say what you like about North Korea, but it's only had three since 1945.

As Starmer himself pointed out only three years ago, anyone who doesn't like changes in the Labour Party knows where the door is

If you're against a wealth tax on multimillionaires but favour means testing for the disabled, check the internal coherence of your thought process

Nigel Farage is publishing pictures of himself wearing an England football shirt. But he wants to deport more than half the squad.

Working-class living standards rose in the 1960s and 1970s. My family got a telly, a fridge, a phone, wallpaper that went all the way up the ceiling and that ultimate luxury, an inside lavatory. That compares favourably to two decades of stagnant real wages.

Eton charges pupils £63,000 a year. That's more than the entire annual salary of an allegedly overpaid tube driver.

Unlike William and Kate, I couldn't afford to put my son's name down for Eton. But I did manage to get him on the waiting list for an NHS dentist, which is at least a start.

It's all very well banning social media access for under 16s. But when I was in my teens, the ban on the sale of cigarettes to under 16s didn't stop us smoking behind the bike sheds.

Farage argues that the mainstream media constantly distorts what he has to say. This is the guy who has built his brand on uncritical coverage in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and - sadly - the BBC.

Nuclear weapons don't make Britain safer; they make Britain a target

I just want to say thank you to hard-working immigrants in Britain and the north of Ireland for everything they do. That's all.

Instead of devising gratuitous 'peace prizes' to dish out to Donald Trump, FIFA should try standing up for its right to decide who gets to referee football matches

Working-class white people are burning down the homes of black working-class people, at the instigation of the world's only trillionaire. How has it come to this?

Four young people have been given lengthy prison sentences for 'terrorism' after committing criminal damage offences. I wonder what will happen to the thugs who torched the homes of black people in Belfast, if they ever end up in the dock.

The royal family is supposedly a tourist attraction. So is Legoland, but that doesn't mean it deserves an annual £90m subsidy from the taxpayer. #AbolishTheMonarchy

Many Reform UK and Restore supporters are clearly nostalgic for the good old days of proper white British mass murderers like Ian Brady & Myra Hindley, Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nilsen, Harold Shipman and Fred & Rose West

A government that was serious about economic growth would scrap the requirement for employers to pay workers anything at all. Wage costs are a huge burden on business and an unjustifiable disincentive for wealth creators.

Reform UK wants to slash the minimum wage, voted against Labour's employment rights package and plans to deport hundreds of thousands of working-class people. And Nigel Farage is now inviting unions to affiliate to the party?

I'd hate to be controversial or anything, but has anybody thought of asking the Chagossians what they want to happen to the Chagos Islands?

AI chatbots are being rolled out in JobCentres to help people made redundant by AI find new employment. Sorry, but that's just cruel.

The right enjoys unlimited funding, the campaign machines built by multiple major parties and the unstinting support of the billionaire-owned media. The left has to make do with logic, morality and policies that represent the interests of millions of ordinary people.

The left doesn't want to 'drag Britain back to the 1970s'; the politicians reheating policies from 1970s National Front manifestoes really do

So GB News was set up as a propaganda outlet in the first place, Boris Johnson filled the BBC with personal buddies and Tory placemen, and it now emerges that former OfCom chair Lord Grade is openly biased in favour of rightwing politics. See how it works yet?

Is Wes Streeting's condemnation of Israeli war crimes motivated more by coming within 500 votes of losing his seat to a pro-Gaza independent than any genuine conviction, or is that just me being cynical?

Britain may soon have a Reform government in Westminster and a Green administration in London's city hall, with the SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru the dominant parties in the devolved nations. Those would be interesting times.

Nigel Farage is the front man. Tommy Robinson is the delivery unit.

The reality of Farage's 'pure cold rage' translates into Nazi salutes on the streets of Southampton

UK companies are fully capable of building and deploying a federated data platform for the NHS without any input, software or licensing from Palantir. The government should make sure they get the chance.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. And the billionaire class has absolute power.

I'll tell you what's 'unsustainable', and it's not state pensions, NHS funding or disability benefits. It's a society in which the majority works longer hours for lower wages so the 1% becomes richer still.

I'd rather vote for a Labour MP who wants the rich to be taxed so that benefits don't get cut than a Labour MP who wants benefits to be cut so the rich don't get taxed

Since its first edition in 1896, the Daily Mail has only ever backed the right wing of the Tories and the British Union of Fascists. It will probably endorse Reform UK at the next election.

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

From making fans pay to watch football matches previously broadcast for free to screwing railway passengers for every last penny and selling off dozens of reservoirs, 40 years of neoliberalism has been all about enriching the billionaire class at the expense of everybody else

In the last year, the cost of living has gone up £55 a week across the UK and £96 a week in London. Pensions have gone up by £11 a week. Tell me again about the 'too generous' triple lock.

Immigrants are not the reason most workers haven't had a pay rise since 2008, prisons are overflowing, sewage is seeping into rivers and the streets are full of people sleeping rough

Former Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt has a new book out called Can We Be Rich Again? The answer is yes indeed, provided we buy seven flats and then fail to declare them.

'Death to traitors, freedom for Britain' - Thomas Muir, the man who murdered Labour MP Jo Cox 'I view Tory and Labour politicians ... as traitors to their country. A reckoning is coming.' - Zia Yusuf, chair of Reform UK

Immigrants aren't 'driving wages down'. Employers are managing that all by themselves.

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

Lefties supposedly want to 'drag Britain back to the 1970s'. But somehow Farage is never accused of wanting to drag Britain back to the Thatcherite 1980s, Blair to the New Labour 2000s or Badenoch to the austerity era of the 2010s.

I've never described Reform UK as fascist. But hearing their leading lights brand Labour and Tory politicians as 'traitors to their country' and warning that 'a reckoning is coming' leaves me feeling distinctly uneasy.

Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, is hosting lunch for Nigel Farage and Reform UK donors at Arundel Castle this week. Working-class party much?

Andy Burnham isn't particularly leftwing. It's just that Labour has moved so far to the right that it looks that way.

South East Water put up prices 20% last year but can't actually supply water to large chunks of Kent. How's that for 'the superior efficiency of the private sector'?

Interestingly, the 'Not in Employment, Education, or Training' category doesn't take in posh kids doing unpaid internships while mummy and daddy pay the London rent