Unhealthy and Unjust

A Bill that would require the NHS to kill people on the authority of a judge is opposed both by the Health Secretary and by the Justice Secretary. They should say that they would resign it if became law.

As Louise Haigh sort of renationalises the national rail network, Sadiq Khan has reprivatised the Elizabeth Line. Different companies operate different lines on the Tube. What madness is that? Unaffiliated to the Labour Party, the RMT should be preparing to endorse or field a candidate for Mayor of London in 2028, and campaigning from now.

And after Labour had promised to cut household energy bills by £400, they have instead risen so far and so fast that inflation has gone up to 2.3 per cent. Rachel Reeves is used to complaints, since handling them was her job when she pretends that she was an economist. But those were presumably about other, rather more important people. In matching outfits, she and Lucy Powell initially flanked Angela Rayner as Rayner answered today's Prime Minister's Questions. But halfway through, as things heated up both about inflation and about Reeves's CV, Powell went for an early bath and the substitute who came on was Ellie Reeves, who had not even brought her kit. That looked desperate because it was. At war with a nuclear power, by such are we governed.