David Osland

Twenty seven people who donated £50m in total to the last Tory government were given seats in House of Lords. And some still argue against an elected second chamber.

The House of Lords is the only legislative chamber in the world into which you can all but openly buy a place. It's a feudal anachronism and it's long overdue for abolition.

The case for abolition of the House of Lords in a nutshell: Michelle Mone, Shaun Bailey, Ben Houchen and Evgeny Lebedev. And Charlotte Owen.

There are many more sex offenders protesting outside asylum hotels than living inside them

If plumbers are worth £90 an hour, and corporate lawyers are billed at £1000 an hour, surely resident doctors deserve £22? Tell me I'm wrong.

Over 30% of Australia's population is foreign born. The country seems to be doing quite well, doesn't it?

Resident doctors pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for six years of medical school and then get below-inflation pay rises. Then television presenters on six-figure salaries tell them they're 'greedy'.

If you live in Dubai to avoid paying UK income tax, maybe don't post endless tweets attacking 'economic migrants'

Labour-led Birmingham council has so far spent £8m on hiring scabs to break the bin strike. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just settle the dispute?

Even if it were true that the royal family are a tourist attraction, Legoland doesn't get £86.3m a year from the taxpayer

When rightwingers make strident calls to 'defund the RNLI', remember that the RNLI doesn't get any state funding. It's supported entirely by voluntary donations.

Always remember that Thatcher called bin Laden a freedom fighter, Mandela a terrorist and Pinochet a good friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

The RNLI is Britain at its best. Many 'patriots' exemplify Britain at its worst.

It's true. Londoners are so unimpressed with Sadiq Khan that they've voted him in as mayor three times running.

I somehow suspect that the Corbyn/Sultana demographic doesn't give a toss about whether the launch of the new party was 'slick' or 'professional' or not

The House of Lords gives peers £342 a day just for clocking on. A 10-hour shift as a resident doctor pays just £175.

Last time I checked, no striking resident doctor had ever ripped the NHS off for £200m of unusable PPE

Water companies say their industry is 'too expensive to nationalise'. Billionaires say a wealth tax would 'force them to leave the country'. House builders say rent controls would 'make housing more expensive'. Time to stop listening to this kind of self-interested bollocks.

As Tony Benn used to say, pay close attention to the way governments treat refugees. Because that's how they'd treat you if they could get away with it.

Socially owned water companies mean no shareholders. No shareholders means no dividends. No dividends means we finally get the investment that has been overdue since privatisation. What does Steve Reed not understand here?

Can't be long before the line-up on Question Time includes Lee Anderson, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Sarah Pochin, with a rightwing Tory to provide some political balance

Parts of Britain are now in drought. But if privatised water companies weren't leaking literally billions of litres a day - after decades of prefering dividends over investment - perhaps they wouldn't be.

While we're talking about superinjunctions, can anybody report on why Charlotte Owen got her peerage yet?

Asylum seekers include qualified doctors and nurses and trained engineers. Of course they should be allowed to work.

I'm so old, I remember when standing up for disabled people was official Labour Party policy. Not 'insurrection'.

The government backtracked on disability benefit cuts. Effectively, four Labour MPs have been suspended for being right.

Trump described Starmer as 'a liberal'. On today's evidence, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is it time for a 2% wealth tax? With me in the studio to discuss this are a trust puppy working for a rightwing think tank, a non-dom billionaire and a couple of FTSE100 chief executives.

When broadcasters allegedly make racist remarks, rightwing newspapers run articles asking 'Is it time to defund the BBC?' When politicians make overtly racist speeches, they praise them to the hilt.

Even if it really is true that Epstein didn't have a client list, that doesn't mean he didn't have clients