Could it be that I stupidly crashed my car into a lamppost or that the council negligently put the lamppost in the wrong place?

There's a good reason why many (for which we should probably read all) hadn't heard it before. It's not hard to work out what that reason is.

See also Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Kemi Badenoch. Hope springs eternal.

The politician who came closest to House of Lords reform was Nick Clegg but his efforts were sabotaged by Tory MPs. Starmer has avoided any problems by ditching his manifesto commitment to major reform and then not even attempting the minor reforms which replaced it.

Maybe the purpose of regulations, consultations and arm's length bodies is to improve decision making by warning politicians against doing unwise things they haven't thought through. Like doing away with jury trials to order to reduce a backlog not caused by jury trials.

What on earth is the plot that this is supposed to be the moral inverse of? Presumably a twenty stone male pins a five foot five woman by the neck until she accepts that he isn't misogynistic or fascist thus proving that he's not a stupid brute at all.

Yup, got to let people express "legitimate concerns"

Looking at all the Christmas lights I'm beginning to think the woke liberati are going to prove as unreliable as the German carmakers.

It's a pity that no one ever came up with the idea of a flexible arrangement which allowed people to come and go freely between the UK and Poland in response to the job market.

You mean - it's a stunt but it gets results?

I thought the Met was a hierarchical organisation which required members to support and protect each other

Makes a change from those tedious heard-from-one-side conversations about sales targets

Not only did Nigel Jones as he says once give Farage lunch at his club, he also once stood for Parliament - unsuccessfully - on behalf of UKIP.

Building Airfix Spitfires and making jokes about gas chambers to Jewish pupils are two entirely different things and it's beyond crass to lump them together as an obsession with Hitler shared by an entire generation.

My recollection is that our "obsession" with Hitler was limited to knowing that he was very bad, was on the other side and had lost.

Does the Department of Health and Social Care share this policy objective which appears to undermine many of its other objectives?