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We would pay for state visits of incoming heads of state. So far as I know, use of palaces and such for state visits comes out of the royal budget. And no, I wasn't saying that £345m isn't a lot of money. What I was saying is that abolishing the monarchy and saving (at a top end republican...

Another old chestnut. Back in the day 10% of people went to university, now it's close to 50%, that means that younger people are clever and older people are stupid. Do people really believe that? The reason fewer people with degrees voted Brexit is because younger people (more likely to have...

How much less tax would we pay? According to this site, which claims that the cost of the monarchy is far more than the official figures, the monarch costs £345m per year. That's £5 per head per year, or 10 per person per week. How would that translate into tax cuts? Also, would it become...

Bernard Manning told jokes about all kinds of minority races. Perhaps even Jews. Hunter is just carrying on with Manning's principles.

Perhaps this is where the unexplained "black hole" in the Tory budget. They hadn't allowed for all these above-inflation pay rises. I wonder how the other public service unions are going to react? Will it be "the money's been spent, there won't be any pay rises for us" or is it going to be...

I suspect it's not all that many, though that's only gut feeling not empirical data. If it was a significant number, then the turnout in safe seats would be lower than in marginal seats, and I've never been led to believe that's true. I dare say someone, somewhere has done some analysis?

Depends how you define "poor". A single pensioner on £220 per week will lose £500 or £600 income compared with last year, which is quite a difference. Especially if they were on pensioner credit last year but not this, in which case they will already have lost free TV licence and other benefits.

He's American. He's probably never heard of Manchester. Biden is a white "Christian" - did that mean Trump was polite and kind to him?

I don't dispute that Trump can't stand Khan and is behaving absurdly. But even when looking for the racism that is supposed to be there, I don't see it.

I didn't suggest that ALL the poor vote Labour and ALL the rich vote Tory. Tony Benn being another example of the seriously rich who is also, in public life at least, a socialist. What I suggested was that the average poor person is more likely to be in favour of redistribution of wealth, than...

Actually I was hoping clapham-gull would post his or her stats about Twitter users' racist hate from the shires, not from London. I don't think your article addresses that. For that matter, your article doesn't address racial hatred either. To Zoe Williams, it is apparent that callikng...

Plenty of good ponts, there, but I would take issue with the parts I have bolded. One, if refugees in the country now were to be sent to Rwanda, and the current crop of refugees now in France who would rather be in England believed they would be sent there too, it would certainly act as a...

I would have to disagree the bolded part. I don't agree that the British plan to collect migrants arriving by boat and sending them to a foreign country for processing has no similarities at all with the Australian plan to collect migrants arriving by boat and sending them to a foreign country...

That old chestnut. These old right wingers whose deaths you cheerfully predict were brought up in the sixties. Flower people, drugs and free love, student riots, and so forth. They're conservative now, but they weren't then; it's a typical progression for people to move from left to right as...

anti-Khan racism? Are there really that many people who fill their posts with bile about Khan, Sunak, and any other dark-skinned politician? Or are more of the anti-Khan posts because they don't like his politics, with little to do with the colour of his skin? Can you post a link to these stats?

With detachable caps, the ring stayed on the bottle. With non-detachable caps, when they are detached, the ring gets lost in the bin. Do we gain much? And isn't it normal to put the cap back on the bottle every time we finish drinking, even if the bottle is empty?

Bellamy is another, like Gudmondsson, who left the club immediately the season ended, but came back (and was caretaker manager) after Kompany left. Obviously he moved on to Wales since then.

The theory about Rwanda is that these immigrants (who remember are coming from France, not a third world dictatorship) wouldn't want to come if they thought they might be sent off to Rwanda. Which may or may not have worked, we will never know. (It worked for Australia.)

Starmer's clamping down on the gangs was never anything more than political verbiage. The authorities are already trying to clamp down on the gangs, always have been, though with how much success we don't really know. If and when Starmer directs specific extra spending on the immigration...

There would no doubt be many ex=players who would say "that never did me any harm" or even (or especially) "I wouldn't have been the player I was if I hadn't had an almighty kick up the backside now and then". On the other hand a rant like that one on film probably does no good at all...