Bragging Rights

I have never purported to be either, but the first man to call me "a populist, not an academic" went on the take a lower class of the same BA that I took in the same year, before failing, to this day, to take the MA that I have held since 2002. What class of undergraduate degree did Oliver Kamm take? In any event, it is obvious that only one or other of those would be qualified to succeed Melvyn Bragg as the presenter of the sublime In Our Time. But which of them, and why?

Or should the BBC do everything proper by giving the gig to Angela Rayner? Jeremy Hunt dodged £100,000 in stamp duty because he had forgotten that he owned seven flats. Could you forget that? Yet he did not resign, nor was he sacked. But he should have done, or he should have been, and he was not the Secretary of State for Housing.

A Labour Deputy Leadership Election? There has not been one of those in government since 2007. And they are far more interesting than they sound. If, as we do on here, you like your politics properly vicious.