The Tories' Crackdown on Crime

Whenever a politician does something bad, real people in the real world are completely relaxed and simply want them to be getting on with something different. The publication of the Sue Gray Report offered the perfect occasion for Johnson to trumpet Brexit freedoms. On Monday, Rishi Sunak was revealing to people that people care about grooming gangs. For his part, Kia Starmer explained across the airwaves that almost nobody is talking about trans issues. I do sometimes just wonder why on earth we spend so much of our time discussing something which isn’t a feature of the dinner table, or the kitchentable, or the cafe Table, or the bar. As a single real person, my overall impression is