Apart from not being a viable engineering project, its illegality under international law and buggering up the world's busiest shipping lane, what is stopping Britain building a mined floating wall across the Channel?

Keir Starmer's insistence that he can and will win a general election obviously parallels the 'narrow path to Tory victory' argument that was fashionable among rightwing commentators circa 2023. The contention proved notably incorrect.

I respect other people's rights to hold such religious beliefs as the wish. But the idea that a Syrian soldier in the Roman army who died 1800 years ago now lives in Heaven and intercedes with God on England's behalf strikes me as potentially somewhat farfetched.

Children as young as four are being taught that England's patron saint was a Palestinian. We want our country back.

Reform announced plans to deport hundreds of thousands of refugees on the anniversary date of Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. Don't tell me that was happenstance.

Lord Mandelson is gone. The trouble is that his allies, acolytes, confederates, proteges and bag carriers still dominate the Labour Party.

Starmer didn't appoint Mandelson; Mandelson appointed Starmer

Sorry, but 'I'm only the prime minster, what do I know?' doesn't really wash in these circumstances

To be fair to Team Starmer, how could anyone possibly have suspected that Mandelson had any blemishes on his character?

I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.

The Greens 10:1 pay ratio proposal would drive chief executive pay at companies with minimum wage employees down to just £247,845 a year. How can anybody be expected to survive on that?

University tuition is free or nearly free in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and many other successful European economies. But try raising that point on a British television political talkshow.

Catholic theology teaches that the Pope is infallible when speaking ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals. Donald Trump, not so much.

Frankly, if the worst the rich have got to complain about is VAT on public school fees and a poorly enforced ban on fox hunting, they're doing pretty bloody well

Hundreds of people should not be facing potential terrorism charges simply for holding placards, especially after a court ruling that the proscription of the organisation they were supporting is unlawful. That's not how democracy is supposed to work.

How about a ban on companies in the market for government contracts - and the owners of such companies - making donations to political parties?

OK, you might have to suffer because of the energy crisis. But Wall Street banks are set to unveil record quaterly earnings and that's what really matters.

Good to see Lord Frost call for the rejection of the lousy Brexit deal negotiated by Lord Frost

Can Britain still afford the NHS? With me in the studio to discuss this are the chief executive of BUPA, a spokesperson for Palantir and the boss of a hedge fund raking in huge sums of money from hospital PFI contracts.

In the last two years along, private companies have made £1.6bn in profits from the NHS. That would foot most of the bill for meeting the resident doctors' pay claim.

82% of the public want water utilities under social ownership and Thames Water will be available cheaply if the government simply lets it go bust. What - other than an ideological commitment to privatisation - is stopping this happening?

Blaming resident doctors for NHS waiting lists is like blaming the homeless for the housing market

Instead of sending Charles Windsor on a state visit to the US, why not entrust the task to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? I hear that he and Donald Trump have some high-profile mutual acquaintances.

Remember when 'wading through shit' was a metaphor for life's little problems and not a literal description of taking the kids paddling at the seaside on a bank holiday weekend?

Having a roof over your head and a pension pot big enough to provide a reasonable standard of living doesn't make you rich. It's the least you deserve before you kick the bucket.

Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to 80. Life expectancy for British men is 79.

Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 and the highest rate of pensioner poverty in western Europe. And all I'm reading in the rightwing press is 'scrap the triple lock'.

When I started paying National Insurance contributions in 1976, the deal was that I'd get a pension providing for a basic standard of living in a then-unimaginable 50 years' time. But now I've finally got there, it's just half the minimum wage.

Being sent across the Atlantic to lick Trump's arse will demean Charles Windsor even more than accepting suitcases stuffed with cash by a dodgy Saudi businessman. If he had any self-respect, he'd refuse to go.

The finance ministers of Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for windfall taxes on the big oil companies raking in superprofits from the energy crisis. Over to you, Ms Reeves.

Loving that footage of Prince Harry and Archie on their ski-ing holiday. And yet some people still keep banging on about the so-called 'cost of living crisis'.

For most of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have been indistinguishable from those of a pretty run of the mill Labour MP. That's why opinion column hit pieces depicting the Greens as 'far left' are garnering such little traction.

So millions of progressive Americans are participating in No Kings demonstrations and Britain responds by sending Charles III over to crawl up Donald Trump's backside?

Eton, Harrow and Winchester haven't been forced to consolidate into a Multi-Academy Trust. So why should that provision only apply to state schools?

Tommy Robinson has held several fascist rallies in Trafalgar Square. And to the best of my knowledge, not a single Tory MP has described them as 'an act of domination'.

If being able to donate £9m to a political party is 'a basic human right', it's a basic human right not available to 99.9% of basic humans

British political parties should be financed by fivers and tenners from British voters. Not by £9m bungs from Thailand-based crypto bros.

Billionaires say they can't afford to live in a Britain with a wealth tax. NHS workers, school teachers and retail and hospitality staff can't afford to live in a Britain without one.

If Muslim prayer or dad dancing in Trafalgar Square are obviously bad things but anti-vaxxer headbanger rallies are perfectly OK, somebody please tell me what the rules are

Some 340 people became billionaires in 2025, often simply because their dads died. And nine million people died from hunger.

Not everything in British society should be structured solely in the interests of keeping billionaires living here. Sorry to be so controversial.

Boris Johnson accidentally deleted 5000 WhatsApp messages and Morgan McSweeney had his phone nicked. A series of unfortunate events, I guess.

As Kemi Badenoch has made clear, if you can't work because you are disabled or live in a town where 50 applicants chase every job, the Tories despise you

The new BBC director general went to a private school. Like the previous BBC director general. And the one before that, and the one before that.

The vet industry is ripping off pet owners. Think what private healthcare providers will do if they get their hands on the NHS.

Royal Mail prices go up even as delivery times deteriorate. Yet another example of 'the superior efficiency of the private sector'.

Average annual takehome pay is now just £25k. Tell me again why the 1% shouldn't pay a bit more tax.

The £600,000 tax bill Richard Tice dodged would have funded the salaries of 20 nurses for a year

Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?

Nye Bevan has a better claim to appear on a plastic fiver than Winston Churchill. Tell me I'm wrong.