As Liz Truss has reminded us, Tony Blair set up the Bank of England in 1694. In 1702, he falsely accused Spain of having weapons of mass destruction and launched the illegal War of the Spanish Succession.

House builders say rent controls would 'make housing more scarce'. Water companies say their industry is 'too expensive to nationalise'. Billionaires say wealth tax would 'force them to leave the country'. But as Mandy Rice-Davies observed, they would say that, wouldn't they?

Given the regularity with which Zack Polanski is asked about his boob enlargement hypnotherapy episode, I expect interviewers will soon start grilling Kemi Badenoch about the time she illegally hacked a Labour MP's website

Liz Truss's often tenuous grasp of basic facts has turned her into a laughing stock. But don't forget that major companies pay £80,000 a speech to hear her insights on politics and economics.

We're continually told that wealth taxes and rent controls would be disastrous for the economy, which can only be boosted by slashing disability benefits and scrapping the triple lock to fund further tax cuts for the rich. This is ideology, not analysis.

Liz Truss just claimed on live radio that 'the Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair'. She must surely rank as the most economically illiterate person ever to have held a ministerial position at the Treasury, and her time as prime minister underlined that fact.

Lord Archer gets caught trying to nick three suits. No charges. Richard Madeley walks out of Tesco without paying for champagne. Acquitted. Giles Coren justifies skipping the tills at Sainsbury's in a column in The Times. It's almost as if there's a theme here.

A Guardian headline proclaims 'everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock'. Given that it's the worst state pension in Europe, there's actually a case for doubling it.

Bowie and the Tom Robinson Band made me question homophobia, hanging out at reggae gigs helped me reject my parents' racism, hearing The Clash drew me towards leftwing politics. And now now Laura Kuenssberg is questioning whether musicians should take political stances?

The late novelist W Somerset Maugham famously described Monaco as 'a sunny place for shady people'. And I guess that reputation still holds.

I care so much about Britain that I'm going to live in Monaco

Companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received state support to the tune of £630m in recent years. Now this 'wealth creator' is leaving the country because he doesn't want to pay taxes and doesn't like black and brown people.

The Torygraph claims Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has lived 'in exile' since his arrest last February. Karl Marx, Emma Goldman and Che Guevara lived in exile; the man who remains eighth in line to the British thrown lives on Sandringham estate.

Boris Johnson stuffed the BBC full of Tory placemen, some of whom facilitated six-figures personal loans to support his lifestyle. Now Kemi Badenoch is having a hissy fit because a trade unionist has been given a symbolic place on the Bank of England board.

Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?

Scrapping inheritance tax would help 40,000 rich families a year. And do sweet FA for 4.2m people in food poverty.