Crunch Points

Jenny Chapman has told the House of Lords that the Chagos handover had "already been agreed" while speaking for the Government on the Bill without which that handover could not in fact proceed. Kim Leadbeater is moaning that the House of Lords was exercising its constitutional right to amend her Private Member's Bill to kingdom come, or indeed to throw it out and make the Commons start again.

And the result of the 2021 Batley and Spen by-election looks ever more disastrous from Chagos, to assisted suicide, to basic understanding of the parliamentary process, to protection from the digital ID, the conscription, and all the rest of the horrors into which we were being frightened by the spectre of an Axis of our Second World War Allies of Russia, China and Iran (yes, I know, but as good as), each of which has a monstrous government than which any viable alternative would be even worse, but none of which is any threat to Britain. Being as near as anywhere to impregnable, this country has always enjoyed a good invasion scare. But there is no excuse for taking these things seriously.