A naughty boy is on the loose

+I thought David Cameron’s performance before the Treasury Select Committee yesterday must have been modelled on Richard Nixon’s performance in his famous interview with David Frost. The same carefully constructed legalistic evasions, the same shifty look. But I don’t suppose they’ll make a film of it. And surely at least, Nixon must have had one or two redeeming features??
 
+The Labour Party, I heard on the news this morning has suspended the membership of Unite’s general secretary candidate, Howard Beckett. Suffice to say Beckett is of the left, not a man Starmer wants in the footsteps of Len McClusky. Beckett’s offence apparently was to call for the deportation of Pritti Patel, the Home Secretary, after a Glasgow crowd prevented the deportation of a couple of people a day or two ago. I think I can bet safely that the context of Beckett’s ironic remark was that she might try a taste of her own medicine. But that would be far too subtle for Labour’s new iron fist disciplinarians. Oh dear, why did I use the phrase ‘iron fist?’ Aren’t those the words Benjamin Netanyahu used to describe his government’s response to the latest round of Palestinian grievance. Oh dear, we shouldn’t talk about such things!