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"What about the workers!" It was a defining phrase in politics some years back, but clearly one senior politician never heard it. What is this relatively recent obsession with having a crowd of disinterested employees standing behind politicians as they deliver turgid speeches? Almost without fail they look as jaded as a recalcitrant teenager told to tidy their bedroom because grandad is coming to stay.

One of the finest examples of this came last week when forced staff at a Rochdale bus factory to stand for around an hour - aided and abetted by the local mayor , who must have been tallying up the lost votes as the chancellor droned on.

Special mention to the fella on Reeves' right, who resembled a young . Rarely can anyone have wanted to get back to an arc welder more keenly.

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Regarding those pictures of Harry and Meghan dancing in the delivery suite, I'm going to remember the advice of my late, great Mum. "Least said, soonest mended."

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Of course Turkish-Armenian Hamit Coskun shouldn't have made highly offensive and derogatory remarks about Islam and Muslims and nor should he have set a copy of the Koran alight.

However, doesn't the assertion by his supporters that had he been burning a copy of The Bible outside Westminster Abbey then nothing would have been done ring chillingly true?

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With drug-cheats, results-rigging and wrongful winners it's not as if the Olympics are short of moments that tarnish the original golden goal. But can any be more shameful than the scandal involving Algerian "women's" boxing gold medal winner in the Paris 2024 Games, Imane Khelif?

Despite being disqualified from the World Boxing Championships, clearly in thrall to the ever-burgeoning gender industry the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Khelif to box on. The first bout lasted 46 seconds as the tearful opponent threw in the towel.

A laboratory in India has now released chromosome analysis which shows Khelif has "male karyotype."

The deceitful dolts at the IOC are damned lucky no woman boxer was irrevocably injured, or even killed, as a result of their shameful lapse in judgement.

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Toddler Abiyah Yasharahyalah never stood a chance. Born to criminal parents who effectively starved him to death, failed to summon medical care as his condition deteriorated fatally and then buried the body of the three-year-old boy in the garden of their Birmingham home, his fate was sealed.

Helped, it has to be said, by the relevant authorities being riven with fear and doing nothing as they didn't want to be branded as "racist."

Chalk up another avoidable young death to the unassailable doctrine of political correctness.