QUENTIN LETTS: MPs look down at Lee Anderson rather in the same way Lady Grantham regards her maid

QUENTIN LETTS: Lee Anderson (Reform, Ashfield) caused a kerfuffle in the Commons by complaining about a recent election event at his constituency's hospital.

GRANT SHAPPS: We're cementing our place as the biggest defence power in Europe... This £75 billion pledge will mean we can defend our values by making sure our Armed Forces are fighting fit

GRANT SHAPPS: Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (pictured) recently warned that defeat for his country could lead to World War Three.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The police used to arrest people for Driving While Black. Today... the Met's new offence: WALKING WHILE JEWISH

Back in the not-too-dim-and-distant, the police regularly operated a policy of stopping selected motorists for 'Driving While Black'.

QUENTIN LETTS: The old fools broke for supper. Nothing comes between a parliamentary lifer and his subsidised tapioca pudding

Anti-democratic grotesquerie as a drawn-out dance, Westminster last night played parliamentary ping-pong. Similarities to table-tennis were certainly evident.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: What next for Huw Edwards after he finally confirms he is leaving the BBC?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Just months before being taken off the airwaves in the summer of 2023, the Welshman had been seen visiting the London offices of media rivals Global.

CRAIG BROWN: The customer is king... do you agree, even a bit?

CRAIG BROWN: Hi there! I hope this finds you well. We really want to thank you for taking the time to read this.

ALEX BRUMMER: Labour's big pension lie... They claim to be the party you can trust with your retirement. In fact, Keir Starmer's plotting a stealth tax raid (just like Gordon Brown!)

Prior to the New Labour general election landslide of 1997, I learned through reliable City sources that the party's Chancellor-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, were planning a tax grab on Britain's pension funds.

Fluoride debate in Hastings: Health expert says anti-fluoride campaigner using ‘misleading’ data to claim kids’ teeth have improved

An expert says an anti-fluoride campaigner's use of Health NZ stats is 'misleading'.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Blockers in the Lords must now drop their insincere objections and pass the Rwanda bill today - the real battle to get flights off the ground is yet to begin

DOMINIC LAWSON: The ball has been ping- ponging back and forth between the two Houses over the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration Bill).

It's covering the world in a plague of crumbs that take 500 years to break down, poison the food chain and seep into our brains. So why can't scientists come up with anything better to replace toxic polystyrene?

Ray McIntyre clearly had no idea of the toxic plague he was unleashing on the world when he accidentally invented 'expanded polystyrene' more than 80 years ago.

ANDREW PIERCE: Will Keir criticism see Mandy back in the wilderness?

ANDREW PIERCE: As one of the architects of New Labour , the former Cabinet minister Lord Mandelson enjoys an open line to Sir Keir Starmer .

PETER HITCHENS: There's nothing conservative about these warmongers and dubious drug legalisers

All supporters of free speech must, of course, rally to the defence of the strange conference in Brussels which was briefly shut down last week. But if this was conservatism, no wonder the cause is lost.

STEPHEN POLLARD: Spare us from Ed Miliband, Labour's smug, shameless, unprincipled one-man walking disaster zone

Coming through the radio was an unfortunate, adenoidal voice that all but shrunk my toothpaste back into its tube. this distinctive drone was emanating from a man with a base layer of smugness...

BORIS JOHNSON: Forget the scare stories about hormone treated beef: we've killed our free-trade deal with Canada out of fear of the EU. It's time the government truly championed Brexit

I was in Canada the other day, and it struck me the Canadians are an enviably healthy bunch. They live about a year longer, on average, than we do - a whole year.

Where will Israel-Iran conflict blow up next? Red Sea, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon could all be future battlegrounds sparking war 'so severe it would make Gaza look like an entrée', says expert MICHAEL STEPHENS

Middle East politics and security expert Michael Stephens, who is senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has analysed the escalating situation in an article for MailOnline.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: If Britain's going broke and Gen Z can't buy a house... Don't blame it on the boomers!

So now we know what one of the brains behind Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves believes is responsible for Britain's economic woes. Blame it on the Boomers.

To the non-smokers who back Rishi's ban I say: Just wait till they outlaw the one little pleasure YOU enjoy

One of the nicest men I've known died on Tuesday, a couple of months short of his 67th birthday and just a week after I enjoyed a last pint with him.

ANDREW PIERCE: 'It's John Major's time all over again. And what happened to us then? We were massacred' - Tories react with dismay to yet another sleaze headache for Rishi Sunak as MP is accused of late-night 'ransom' call

Tory MP Mark Menzies was surprisingly upbeat as he entered the division lobby on Tuesday to vote for Rishi Sunak's flagship legislation to ban smoking for future generations.

'MPs are complaining, m'lud. Lammy has gone supersonic-pompous': QUENTIN LETTS watches MPs debate whether Lord Cameron should quizzed in the Commons

Lord Cameron, Foreign Secretary, was in Italy for a G7 foreign ministers' meeting. These meetings have to be held in sun-kissed resorts. It's a security requirement.

DANIEL HANNAN: Why, despite two welcome victories, I fear we'll NEVER beat the woke nightmare. And the next generation will be even MORE intolerant

Could the woke nightmare be coming to an end? Might Britain be stirring, shaking off its bad dream, and returning to common sense?

Bluey: Road rule featured in season three finale sparks online debate

A controversial road rule discussed on the latest episode of Bluey has sparked a debate.