Another day, another Tory sleaze scandal – this one the second-job earnings of Nadhim Zahawi from an oil company.
The concern isn’t only over the amount he was paid on top of his Westminster salary, though the size of the windfall separates him from nearly every voter.
What is also deeply worrying is that Zahawi was able to exploit a loophole by channelling earnings through a consultancy.
Ending this behaviour is crucial on transparency grounds. The Conservatives are banking fortunes while voting to impose cuts on the public, slashing Universal Credit in the largest ever overnight welfare reduction and resisting campaigns to feed hungry children.
This is an “us and them” divide which is triggering a ferocious backlash.
The decent majority must show these right-wingers the door. And they will.
End the spin
Boris Johnson and the leaders of many other COP26 countries cannot hide the fact they have badly let down humanity.
The crucial goal of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C is, at best, on life-support and, at worst, already dead.
We wish the spinning Prime Minister could be honest for once, instead of pretending he achieved considerably more than he did.
Cop26 president Alok Sharma’s tears over coal burning tell an awful truth that Johnson is incapable of admitting.
Hope must never be abandoned but time is running out and future generations will look back and judge criminally reckless those who wreaked havoc on earth, our one and only collective home.
Royal wishes
The Queen considers attending Remembrance Sunday to be a solemn duty, so for her to miss it was a very sad moment.
The monarch’s strained back comes as she was already recovering from a previous setback, so we join the rest of the public in sending her our very best wishes.
