Beyond The Grave

Tom Watson has been vindicated over Leon Brittan.

When will The Observer sack Nick Cohen? When will The Times sack David Aaronovitch and Alice Thomson? When will David Cameron withdraw the Whip from Victoria Atkins?

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party has been caught massively overspending at by-elections.

On the age-old principle that if wrongdoing is sufficiently flagrant, then no one will point it out, because everyone will wonder why no one else had noticed it and assume that it must just be them.

But on what did Newsnight concentrate? On how a dead woman would have voted in the EU referendum. As if anyone cared.