BHS workers have been 'consciously uncoupled' from their pensions, as Green threw lavish parties attended by the likes of Gwynneth Paltrow and Leonardo DiCaprio

Lefty, boho windbags like him will spend an entire lifetime exalting the glorious, faultless working classes – in song, in prose, in mid-interview rhetoric. This continues until the very second they’re actually faced with them

There will no doubt be a Pokémon Go scare story soon. Yet it’s important to remember that for a short time in July 2016, there was tangible proof that our default setting is open, curious, childlike and really quite silly

Andrea Leadsom pointed out that bearing children gave her 'a very real stake in the future'. This, as opposed to women like Jennifer Aniston and myself, who would smash their barren fists upon a nuclear detonator at a second’s notice screaming, ‘The world ends after meeeeee!’ 

At a point in British history where we’re knee-deep in mutual-antagonism an old-school request for ‘positive vibes’ written in felt tip pen at the Jo Cox vigil seemed oddly healing

SPOILER ALERT: This piece discusses key plot points from the latest episode

I’d be tempted to buy two dozen identical Prada work-wear frocks in industrial slate grey, then wear them brazenly, indistinguishably and without comment, for my entire four year term of office

Nowadays, we get told a lot of things are racist - yoga, the Village People, 'Mexican Mondays' at Wetherspoons - but this time round, I really am inclined to agree with J K Rowling that people who can't get on board with a black actor playing Hermione are a bunch of racists

We want to live at the speed of computers, then we cry like babies when we’re treated like numbers and code

Yesterday’s smokers had it easy. Thanks to new EU laws today’s smokers are destined to amble into the boozer carrying a shag-repelling box of nicotine horror, part covered in a photo of rotting eye, or a weeping scab

There would no doubt be a small percentage of people unhappy about Elba being James Bond due to his skin colour, but there must be a diminishing number of these shut-minded quackers?

I worked as a receptionist in the 1990s and happily wore both heels and a face of slap. The professional fem-bot costume is your armour

There is, I feel, no real need for so much red meat in the Western diet other than our spoilt, lazy palates

SPOILER ALERT: Major plot points from Season Six, Episode One are discussed below

Wood was a mischievous observer of the banal; of office politics, ageing parents and the realities of love. Like the indomitable women she created, death won't keep her down

My working class, hard-left leaning partner is a staunch republican - but I remain unconvinced by his arguments