David Osland

How can Hannah Spencer plausibly claim to be working class when her father wasn't even a toolmaker?

Starting to wonder if Trump's Board of Peace has been inaptly named

It's almost as if the Labour Party is getting bored with losing activists they've had for 50 years and is now turning its best efforts to losing seats it has held for a century

As extreme leftists who want to turn school playgrounds into crack dens go, many Green activists are quite personable when you meet them face to face

A Labour prime minister with an ounce of political nous would look at the Gorton and Denton result and think 'mmm, I wonder if the electorate are trying to say something?'

For much of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have qualified her to be an unexceptional Labour MP. For Starmer to castigate the Greens as 'extreme left' is risible.

MPs are not allowed to question the integrity of King Charles III. This is the guy who accepted a suitcase stuffed with £2.6m in cash from a dubious Qatari politician.

They say the royal family is a tourist attraction. So is Legoland, and last time I checked, it hadn't leaked trade secrets to predatory billionaire paedophiles.

Appointing Robert Jenrick as Reform UK's shadow chancellor should raise a few tens of thousands of pounds in donations from billionaire property developers keen to avoid £45m tax bills

Given how much Nigel Farage hates working from home, it would be nice to see him turn up at his workplace a bit more regularly

I've just learned that all self-respecting superyacht owners buy second vessels known as 'support yachts' just to carry their jet skis and helicopters. And we still get told that inequality doesn't matter.

It's really unlucky that the people charged with vetting Mandelson's Washington appointment didn't think to try a basic Google search. It would have saved them a lot of work

The Mandelson scandal will probably topple Starmer. That must be the first time he's ever done anything positive for the Labour Party.

At a single stroke, Lord Mandelson has completely destroyed his hard-won reputation for honesty. Tragic.

Supporters of the House of Lords should tell us why Lord Mandelson, Baroness Mone, Lord Houchen, Lord Lebedev and Baroness Owen deserve to be unelected lawmakers for the rest of their lives

To rewrite the words of the great Barry Manilow, Mandy came and he took without giving

Britain must be the only country in the world where politicians get more stick for mispronouncing Epstein's surname than for making use of his services

Springsteen's anti-Trump song is probably better than any anti-Springsteen song Trump will ever write

The Daily Mail describes Sarah Ferguson as 'homeless'. If I see her begging outside the local shopping centre, I'll probably bung her a couple of quid.

What Lee Anderson hasn't pointed out yet is that in 1930s the Daily Mail supported the British Union of Fascists and in the 2020s the Daily Mail supports Reform UK

The big difference between fraudulent covid loans and student loans is that fraudulent covid loans are happily written off

If VAT on private school fees is 'class war', what's the right term for 8% compound interest on student loans?

Suella Braverman announced her defection to Reform at a rally for veterans this morning. Maybe she also used the speech to condemn Trump's slur that the audience were cowards in Afghanistan and it just hasn't been reported.

We absolutely don't need the Chinese embassy tapping British citizens' phone calls. We've already got the Daily Mail doing that for us, thank you.

Suella Braverman remains the only home secretary ever to be sacked for inciting fascist violence

Imagine the media reaction if Corbyn had blocked a potential leadership rival from seeking a by-election nomination

It's a good job Nigel Farage didn't inadvertently overclaim a fiver on Universal Credit, because he'd really be in trouble then

Apart from anything else, blocking Burnham would make Starmer look petty. Heaven forfend.

Nigel Farage attended Davos as an adviser to an Iranian billionaire. Doesn't get much more anti-establishment than that, right?

Donald Trump dodged conscription. He's the last person who should be talking about 'stepping back from the frontline'.