Lord Mandelson is gone. The trouble is that his allies, acolytes, confederates, proteges and bag carriers still dominate the Labour Party.

Starmer didn't appoint Mandelson; Mandelson appointed Starmer

Sorry, but 'I'm only the prime minster, what do I know?' doesn't really wash in these circumstances

To be fair to Team Starmer, how could anyone possibly have suspected that Mandelson had any blemishes on his character?

I'll tell you who does 'rely on benefits'. It's the supermarket chains that pay their bosses millions of pounds a year while driving shopworker wages down to levels that force staff to claim Universal Credit.

The Greens 10:1 pay ratio proposal would drive chief executive pay at companies with minimum wage employees down to just £247,845 a year. How can anybody be expected to survive on that?

University tuition is free or nearly free in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and many other successful European economies. But try raising that point on a British television political talkshow.

Catholic theology teaches that the Pope is infallible when speaking ex cathedra on matters of faith or morals. Donald Trump, not so much.

Frankly, if the worst the rich have got to complain about is VAT on public school fees and a poorly enforced ban on fox hunting, they're doing pretty bloody well

Hundreds of people should not be facing potential terrorism charges simply for holding placards, especially after a court ruling that the proscription of the organisation they were supporting is unlawful. That's not how democracy is supposed to work.

How about a ban on companies in the market for government contracts - and the owners of such companies - making donations to political parties?

OK, you might have to suffer because of the energy crisis. But Wall Street banks are set to unveil record quaterly earnings and that's what really matters.

Good to see Lord Frost call for the rejection of the lousy Brexit deal negotiated by Lord Frost

Can Britain still afford the NHS? With me in the studio to discuss this are the chief executive of BUPA, a spokesperson for Palantir and the boss of a hedge fund raking in huge sums of money from hospital PFI contracts.

In the last two years along, private companies have made £1.6bn in profits from the NHS. That would foot most of the bill for meeting the resident doctors' pay claim.

82% of the public want water utilities under social ownership and Thames Water will be available cheaply if the government simply lets it go bust. What - other than an ideological commitment to privatisation - is stopping this happening?

Blaming resident doctors for NHS waiting lists is like blaming the homeless for the housing market

Instead of sending Charles Windsor on a state visit to the US, why not entrust the task to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? I hear that he and Donald Trump have some high-profile mutual acquaintances.

Remember when 'wading through shit' was a metaphor for life's little problems and not a literal description of taking the kids paddling at the seaside on a bank holiday weekend?

Having a roof over your head and a pension pot big enough to provide a reasonable standard of living doesn't make you rich. It's the least you deserve before you kick the bucket.

Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to 80. Life expectancy for British men is 79.

Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 and the highest rate of pensioner poverty in western Europe. And all I'm reading in the rightwing press is 'scrap the triple lock'.

When I started paying National Insurance contributions in 1976, the deal was that I'd get a pension providing for a basic standard of living in a then-unimaginable 50 years' time. But now I've finally got there, it's just half the minimum wage.

Being sent across the Atlantic to lick Trump's arse will demean Charles Windsor even more than accepting suitcases stuffed with cash by a dodgy Saudi businessman. If he had any self-respect, he'd refuse to go.

The finance ministers of Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain have called for windfall taxes on the big oil companies raking in superprofits from the energy crisis. Over to you, Ms Reeves.

Loving that footage of Prince Harry and Archie on their ski-ing holiday. And yet some people still keep banging on about the so-called 'cost of living crisis'.

For most of my political lifetime, Hannah Spencer's views would have been indistinguishable from those of a pretty run of the mill Labour MP. That's why opinion column hit pieces depicting the Greens as 'far left' are garnering such little traction.

So millions of progressive Americans are participating in No Kings demonstrations and Britain responds by sending Charles III over to crawl up Donald Trump's backside?

Eton, Harrow and Winchester haven't been forced to consolidate into a Multi-Academy Trust. So why should that provision only apply to state schools?

Tommy Robinson has held several fascist rallies in Trafalgar Square. And to the best of my knowledge, not a single Tory MP has described them as 'an act of domination'.