The brutal murder of Sir David Amess, MP, while holding a constituency surgery, is deeply shocking. Sir David had given 38 years’ service to his constituents, to Parliament and to the country; only the violent ending of his life prevented him from contributing years more of public duty.

Tory failure to scrap the BBC licence fee is another nail in the party’s coffin
This Ponzi scheme of the airwaves stopped being viable many years ago.