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Why did Andy Burnham go to the Caribbean this week when all he’s done is throw the King under the bus and do what every other British leader has studiously avoided – putting us smack bang in front of a legal liability juggernaut that could leave us paying billions in reparations for decades to come? He’s now talking about a full apology for slavery – a vile trade which Britain ended and which has already cost us dear.

He’s also talking about “restructuring” the Commonwealth debt (translated – British taxpayers will fork out for it) and he’s just doled out £40million in aid to say sorry for a trade that has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone alive today. Doesn’t this buffoon see that apologising to countries that were up to their necks in the slave trade is morally abhorrent.

But Andy’s pathetic need to be loved means he wants to say sorry to a whole bunch of Commonwealth chancers intent on rinsing the UK for trillions. Former top diplomat John Jenkins likens them and Burnham’s capitulation to a “a shakedown by professional grievance entrepreneurs”. The King was handling the reparation demands nicely. He stopped short of apologising for slavery, but expressed genuine sorrow and horror and was calming troubled waters. But then Burnham blunders in and he’s given them all the scent of money again.

The PM can self-flagellate about slavery all he wants but not at the expense of British taxpayers. And if we did have any cash going spare, it should be spent rebuilding our military – not pandering to the fantastical demands of greedy Commonwealth leaders.

No-brainer for Claire

Claire Sweeney has upset theatre bosses in Woking after pulling out of the musical Annie just weeks before opening night having been offered I’m A Celebrity. Well of course she’s pulled out. Regional theatre pays a pittance while I’m A Celebrity will net her hundreds of thousands, tons of profile and a stack more work when it’s over. It’s a no-brainer and anyone who says they wouldn’t do what she’s done is lying.

This is Ewan McGregor’s daughter Esther at the Fashioner Designer of America awards in a dress that looks like she’s got a car seat strapped to her waist. It’s not cutting edge, it’s not on-trend, it’s not stylish – it’s just bloody silly!

So much for unconscious bias, Myha’la!

When black actress Myha’la Herrold was thrown out of Celebrity Traitors, she accused the show of “unconscious racial and cultural bias”. So how come in the final there were two black men, two black women and two white men?

Rank hypocrisy

Does Andy Burnham, who’s constantly lecturing us on Green issues and boasting how he’s cut bus fares by a few quid, not see the rank hypocrisy in forcing a taxpayer-funded Government funded jet to divert from Stansted to pick him and his wife up in Manchester where they’d spent the weekend before flying on to Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting? Why did he have to go to Manchester that weekend knowing he was going to the Caribbean on Monday and knowing how much that diversion would cost? How entitled has this man of the people become that he’s too big and important to train it to London preferring to make taxpayers fork out for the world’s most expensive Uber?

Yes, Bob Dylan is a legend. But no one, and I mean no one, should be turning up to meet the Pope in a scruffy black hoodie. Dylan’s arrogance is towering. He might be God in the world of folk-rock, but Pope Leo XIV is the actual representative of Christ on earth and should be respected accordingly – even though he is a Bobcat!

When will firms learn, woke alienates!

You’ll all have seen John Lewis’ horribly woke, virtue-signalling Christmas ad which features two hideously selfish, entitled, badly behaved kids who all but wreck their grandmother’s (Kristen Scott Thomas) house while their dopey mother justifies their wanton vandalism saying: “Well, they need something to do.”

AAAGHHHH. Far from making me feel Christmassy this ad makes me want to punch the telly.

Cut to the Marks & Spencer ad featuring Amandaland’s Lucy Punch and the fabulous James Norton as Father and Mrs Christmas. This ad is magical, features everything that’s good about Christmas and leaves you with a fuzzy, warm feeling which becomes incredibly hot when looking at Norton. When are companies going to get it – woke alienates, angers and infuriates the very people who fund your business!