Noch right time
THE message to Tory plotters from Kemi Badenoch yesterday was clear: Stop messing around.
Unwittingly or not, she has found herself at the centre of harebrained scheming to replace Rishi Sunak.
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A small band of MPs and party donors are delusional in believing ditching the PM would give them six months and a blank slate to turn the ship around.
Kemi has made no secret of her leadership ambitions.
But she was right yesterday to call out the plotters for their total nonsense.
Labour’s current popularity is driven almost entirely by antipathy to the Tory party.
Much of that woe can be linked to the instability of three Prime Ministers in a single five-year Parliament.
Do they really think a fourth a good idea?
West is tested
THE murders of three US troops at the weekend show there is no depth to which Iran will not sink.
The terror state, after destabilising Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, has now carried out an atrocity in Jordan.
The UK has its smallest Army in history, but never has the case for building up our military might been stronger.
HMS Diamond took out a Houthi drone attacking shipping in the Red Sea yesterday.
Yet our destroyers are so poorly equipped they cannot fire missiles towards land and our aircraft carriers remain thousands of miles away.
The Iranians are repeatedly testing the West’s resolve.
We must not be found wanting.
Grade rip-off
OUR best and brightest young minds are being ripped off by the universities they work so hard to reach.
A British teenager wanting to get into our red brick academies usually needs three A grades at A-level.
How enraging it must be to discover a foreign student can slip in with just a handful of Cs and Ds.
What chance does a working class kid have against such a rigged system?
Universities have become so greedy for overseas cash — £38,00 a year for foreign students — that they take anyone from abroad with a big enough wallet.
Many come on visas, bring dependants and end up staying in the UK.
No wonder legal migration is out of control.
Rogues gallery
IT’S hard to know what the Mona Lisa made of being daubed in pumpkin soup.
She remained as enigmatic as ever as food zealots launched another moronic protest. One thing’s for sure, though:
Da Vinci’s masterpiece will be drawing crowds long after the loons have been forgotten.