David__Osland

I'm told a potential Labour leadership bid from Wes Streeting is currently shaping up, with Shabana Mahmood broached as campaign chair

If politicians tell you they support a two-state solution but don't want the UK to recognise a Palestinian state, ask them to check their premises

American nuclear weapons are back on British soil for the first time in 17 years. We'll all sleep better after hearing that.

Deport racist rioters to El Salvador. I'm all on board with that.

I met a racist Tory MP the other week. Not sure which one, they all look alike to me.

Last time I checked, most racist riots were started by racists

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?

It didn't cost the government 'billions' to take control of a steel company that was effectively bust. And the same would be true if it decided to renationalise Thames Water.

The monarchy is not 'a symbol of national unity'. It's a symbol of entrenched class division.

Some say Thames Water can't be renationalised because of the compensation. But any fair reckoning would start with totting up how much that company owes the public.

Fail to clean up you dog's poo and you're fined £1000. Dump billions of litres of shit in Britain's rivers and you're in line for a six-figure annual bonus.

If you're old enough to be in the army, you're old enough to vote

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

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

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

If Thames Water is doing so badly that it needed to borrow literally three billion quid at credit card interest rates just to stay solvent, what's the justification for the chief exec's pay rise?

The 'exodus' Britain should fear is not the departure of millionaires; it's young people leaving the country to earn salaries in line with their qualifications and to stand some chance of one day actually owning a modest house

Three things I fear Rachel Reeves hasn't quite grasped: wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'