By the way, as a teenager I was always hopping on and off trains every weekend. It was around the same price as a bus, and was not rubbish - it was fantastic. In the past thirty years, I've used a train maybe half a dozen times.

In 2060, establishment journalists will be using the same argument against re-nationalising our healthcare services.

Is there a prince vacancy? Where do I apply?

And Scotland is still obediently waiting for Westminster's permission to begin thinking about independence!

Even when choosing between war and peace, a centrist's gotta centrist.

Good for them!

As Israel's supporters will of course vote multiple times and then point to the lack of boycott evidence as validation, I'm keen on the idea of targeting Germany as a protest vote in the hope of awarding them a Pyrrhic victory every single year, rendering the competition meaningless.

If Eurovision isn't political theatre, why isn't Russia competing? Why is it only European countries and colonies that compete?

I would hope that all politicians might consider their 'moral positions' before standing for elections. Unfortunately, hearing that career politicians like Flint never thought to have one in all their years as an MP, isn't particularly surprising.

The public, just like corporations, are happy to fund politicians that work in their favour.

For the past two years the vast majority of the world understood that genocide is on the wrong side of history, and Eurovision had chosen to stand over there with it.

To be tried by a court, criminals have to be arrested after being accused after being suspected. Putting the court back at the start of this process creates a loop without an entry point. Maybe that's how our incompetent government are planning to clear the court backlog? No more criminals!

I assume this is intended to be read as the establishment journalist definition of populism rather than the dictionary one.

"even though he was being charged by the crown and the system" says a person who understands that the scales of justice are tipped

We're encouraged not to vote *for* candidates but *against* others. The result tends to be a prime minister that two thirds of the country "tactically voted" against

...who reveals that they lied to get the job

...and then quits, handing over the position to someone else without an election.

Throughout my adult life, the UK public has been pleading with successive governments to invest in renewable energy. Now Redwood's sitting here whining that we have to buy our kit from China, who made that blindingly obvious investment back when Redwood was in government with his thumb up his arse.