Trump v Clinton

Each is the only candidate that the other could beat.

The Setting Sun, The Southern Sun

Neither The Sun nor The Times may consider Hillsborough worth mentioning, but The Guardian, for all its many and increasing faults, finds the room for David Conn's brilliant, devastating essay.

For reasons too numerous to list, I have never understood why anyone in or from the North read The Sun. Its sensibility is entirely Southern. It is not that everyone from the South is like that. But everyone like that is from the South.

Union Dues, Union Cards

Understandably, the Hillsborough verdict and the junior doctors' strike have dominated the news.

But the Government's climb-downs on trade union e-voting and on the allegedly sacrosanct requirement to opt in to union political funds, rather than to opt out of them, are pretty significant.

What is left in the Trade Union Bill? This supposedly flagship piece of legislation is dropping to bits before our very eyes.

Struck Off?

Any reported deaths? Well, there you are, then.

In 2010, Jeremy Hunt had to apologise for calling the Hillsborough victims "hooligans".

But he has met his match this time. People are always going to trust a doctor, never mind thousands of them, over a politician.

Kelvin Can't Hack It

A journalist doesn't get to blame a source, because he is supposed to check for himself.

Clearly, Kelvin MacKenzie isn't one.

Relocated

It serves Naz Shah right.

Her comically unqualified, Jeremy Kyle-style candidacy was aggressively supported from Tel Aviv to the Manhattan of Louise Mensch, who flew in especially to support it.

Mensch has never been able to work out which party she was supposed to be in at any given time. Apart, that is, from Likud.

So, what says she today?

What says Jess Phillips, who, like Mensch, can cope with brown women if they know their place, but draws the line at black ones?

Notice that Israel is the only country in the world criticism of which is politically lethal in Britain. But Shah ought to have known that.

Sadiq Khan's bizarre "Festival of Tel Aviv" will be nothing but a focus for enormous anti-Israeli demonstrations. Is that what he wants?

Never mind relocation, to which Palestinians are no strangers.

At every level of the Conservative Party, and as the irreducible core principle of New Labour in international affairs, it is held that the Palestinians do not exist at all, that there are no such people.

The only figure who is allowed to exist in British public life while persistently challenging that assertion is the man whom Shah removed from Parliament with considerable overseas assistance and the active co-operation of members of the Conservative Party.

But even he used to be referred to by name, instead of as an Honourable Member, by the Prime Minister on the floor of the House.

Before that, the BBC and The Guardian had spent an entire Parliament treating as a major national figure the wealthy and well-connected, but otherwise unremarkable, person whose former seat he had won.

Oh, well, he will be back for Tooting soon enough. Like Bradford West, Tooting was a Conservative target in 2010.

George Galloway seems to be touring the places that illustrate the inability of the Conservative Party to win anywhere outside the suburbs and shires of the South East, at least without massive criminality that it does not even seek to deny.

That inability is not unrelated to practices such as murdering 96 of one's class and regional enemies in a single afternoon.

People really have been convicted of genocide for less than that. Including people who were merely part of the propaganda machine.

Bernard Ingham and Kelvin MacKenzie, convicted génocidaires? Now, there's a thought.

The Bloodsoaked Broadcasting Corporation

The BBC was filming the match at Hillsborough. So how did the lies ever take hold?

But remember, we must protect the BBC from any and all criticism, and especially from the proposed changes to its structure, both managerial and editorial.

Heaven forfend that we might instead propose permanent representation for the Left, including the working-class and ethnic minority Left, in return for permanent Tory representation even under a Corbyn Government.

What have the Liberal Establishment and its broadcaster ever done for us? They have spent 27 years not broadcasting the footage that proved the unlawful killing of 96 of what were, at least broadly, our people.

In so doing, they spent 24 of those years, until her death, protecting our greatest enemy in living memory from the criminal prosecution that ought to have been her due.

I want there to be a BBC. But I am sure as hell not going to die in a ditch for this one.