There’s a great deal I don’t understand about this government, starting with the fact they seem to have the combined intellect of an egg whisk, but what really puzzles me is that they seem intent on starting a class war. For a start, not only are most of them not actually working class (and that includes the PM, no matter what his father’s trade was) but neither are most Labour supporters.

It is widely accepted that Labour voters these days come from the professions. The real working class gave the Tories a chance, which was duly squandered, and are now, in their droves, turning to Reform. Remember the dreadful Emily Thornberry mockingly tweeting a picture of a white van with the St George’s Cross in the background? You can put forward as many gobby Angela Rayners as you like, but that’s what the current crew really think about the working man.

But what’s even more puzzling is that this is not even relevant. Class divides do not exist in the way they once did. As noted here before, my paternal grandfather worked in a factory, albeit as a foreman, which meant he had shares in the company, but my father was a Professor of Mathematics. He was proud of the fact that he came from a humble background, but as he told a friend of mine who kept pretending to come from a lower status home than he did: “In my day, people wanted to get out of the working class.”

It’s because Labour are so bankrupt of any other ideas that they are resorting to tribalism, thinking that if they manage to work up enough resentment between communities, at least some of them will think Labour is on their side. But it won’t wash.

Something else people tend to forget these days is that Margaret Thatcher had a great deal of support from the working class, because she represented aspiration. She helped people buy their own houses (including one A Rayner), made them into shareholders. Generated wealth.

There’s no chance of the current establishment understanding this: they are too stupid and too blinded by an ideology that has repeatedly shown it cannot work. They’re about to get the bloody nose they richly deserve in the local elections and an awful lot of it will come from people who want to better themselves, thank you, not constantly be told how badly off in every sense they are. After that, only another three years to go. Hang tight.

Why Margot Robbie really must calm down!

Extremely beautiful women have a habit of putting themselves down, no doubt in the vain hope that it will make the rest of us forget that they have well and truly won life’s lottery and are really just like the rest of us.

I have never forgotten Michelle Pfeiffer informing the rest of the world she looks like a duck. Now it’s Margot Robbie’s turn, telling us she looked like a “small dude” on an ice hockey team in the US. Not when she took her helmet off, she didn’t. Margot, you’re gorgeous. We don’t hate you. Calm down.

Gen Z turning to literary classics aren’t in for a happy read!

It had to happen. On the train t’other day, I saw a Gen Z deeply engrossed in Wuthering Heights, a novel, incidentally, which I loathe with a vengeance. That woman, and many others like her, is in for a shock when she discovers that far from being an Emerald Fennell bonkathon, it features a psychopath who goes around disinterring corpses and hanging puppies. There is also no sex. Happy reading!

Here’s the proof that our honours system STINKS

To lunch at… well, I shouldn’t say, actually, as it’s a private place that doesn’t like publicity. Suffice to say that the great Frederick Forsyth, late of this parish, was its president and as such is commemorated in a plaque on the wall as FF CBE. Which rather begs the question, only CBE?

Damehoods and peerages are tossed around all over the place for totally forgettable figures who manage to achieve a short-lived sporting success and then either implode under the stress or return to well deserved obscurity. But Freddie, whose books were read in their millions, was only a CBE?

Frankly the honours system stinks and I never thought I’d say this but the House of Lords should be abolished. It rewards nobodies who suck up to the politicos of the day while the real great and good go unmarked. Enough.

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“Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?” – Lewis Carroll

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Happy birthday to a very good boy who shames his forever-changing owners

Happy Anniversary to Larry the Cat, who is celebrating 15 years as Chief Mouser at Number 10. He has served under six prime ministers. What a shame he wasn’t running the show: he’d have done better than the lot of them!

Tony Blair really doesn’t get enough stick for these two appointments

In a new documentary Cherie Blair described Tony Blair as a better politician than husband when he was running the country. If the rumours I’ve heard have anything to them, that’s for sure. But the fact remains that Blair was a walking, talking disaster for this country.

Just about everything, from mass immigration to the collapse of standards in public life can be laid at his door. It was also he who constantly promoted Peter Mandelson and made that gormless and venal oaf Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Trade Envoy. Just sayin’.

Fashion can be ageless if you know what you’re doing

A new survey has revealed that the great British public believes that anyone over the age of 56 cannot be fashionable: pull the other one. Just look at Iris Apfel, who died at the age of 102, a fashion icon to the last. Personally, I think that no one under 30 should have the vote, as they know nothing about anything. But that’s for another time.

If Labour really wants prosperity then this is what they must do

So unemployment is on the rise, as any five-year old with the most rudimentary grasp of mathematics could have told you would happen if you make it more expensive to hire people. But not our current dreadful Chancellor.

Keir Starmer has U-turned on so many other measures the following should come easily: if you want to restore growth and prosperity, overturn every single measure the ghastly Rachel Reeves has introduced from the moment she walked into Government. She may be the first female Chancellor we’ve ever had, but, by a long shot, she’s also the worst.