A free press is an essential part of a functioning democracy. If legal threats close that down, what is left?

Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spend wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money, all of a sudden?

Flat taxes are great if you want to increase inequality, crush government services, or leave large numbers of people destitute. Is that why the Tories are so keen on them?

Democracy is based on the principle of rule by the people – all of whom stand equal in the process. But with the money he’s willing to spend, Musk does not stand equal in any democratic country – and can upturn free-choice as a result. That is a threat we have to manage. 

The UK does not need government run for the benefit of the wealthiest. But that is what it has got. When it needs government run for people in need the exact opposite is what Labour is delivering. Is that because it’s frightened of wealthy people?

Trump is promising economic and social mayhem for the USA, and all those places it influences. Will he deliver?

Looking at the people who now describe themselves as politicians it’s reasonable to ask why they are pursuing that vocation because they don’t seem to have a conviction of consequence between the lot of them. Could it be that they’re a bunch of dopamine junkies, in it for the short-term fixes politics gives them?

Labour claims taxpayers would face a massive bill for nationalising the water industry. But that’s not true. If a fair price is paid for the businesses and their debts, nationalising should impose no cash cost on the Treasury at all.

When crashes happen vast quantities of money are reported as being lost. But are they really? Or is it that they actually just cease to exist? It’s an important question, needing an answer. 

Rachel Reeves must think the only job a government has is to balance its books. There can be no other explanation for the insanity of calling in bankers to advise on the NHS.