Rarely has there been a greater need for a stable government.
Instead we have an administration in disarray led by a Prime Minister shorn of power and pitifully out of her depth.
The chaos in British politics is unrelenting, unprecedented and undignified.
In less than a week Liz Truss has lost her Chancellor and her Home Secretary.
And let’s not forget that her whole economic strategy had to be binned.
She has been forced to U-turn on the pensions triple-lock and managed to stoke a backbench revolt on fracking.
This is not a serious government. It is a grotesque cavalcade of clowns and misfits.
Their ineptitude would be laughable were it not for the fact that their decisions have broken the country’s economy.
The big top has collapsed on the circus. It is time for this show to end.
Parents’ agony
The NHS has a responsibility of care to all those placed in its charge.
The East Kent NHS Hospital Trust failed to discharge this most fundamental of duties.
An independent review has found that as many as 45 babies might have survived if they had received better care.
It is difficult to comprehend a parent’s trauma at losing a newborn child.
But that torment was made all the worse by the fact the Trust initially refused to listen to the families’ concerns – and then failed to implement the majority of recommendations made in a safety review.
What happened in East Kent has disturbing echoes of the Shrewsbury baby scandal.
If the health service is to retain the trust of patients, it must make sure these scandals never happen again.
The ray team
Ed Sheeran is branching out from music by launching his own brand of sun cream.
The fair-skinned A Team singer already had the X factor… now he has the factor 70.
