David Osland

Barack Obama came to office pledged to shut down Guantanamo Bay. It's still up and running.

Funny how newspapers only ever mix up photos of black women Labour MPs and never two samey-looking rotund middle-aged white Tory men

I got free tuition and grants through to postgrad level at a time when only 10% of the population graduated and a degree really was a guarantee of a good job. Putting students £50k+ in debt to get career choices once open to those with two A-levels always was a callous con trick.

I'm probably going to get shot down for this, but young left Twitter's constant gratuitous drip-drip attacks on over 60s are starting to get on my tits a bit. If someone's a reactionary bastard, it may not have anything to do with their age.

It's long been said that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. These days, one man's terrorist is often a vulnerable, alienated and mentally unstable teenager from a south London sink estate who has only just been released from Belmarsh.

To brand a patently fucked-up young man lashing out at random strangers on a south London street with a recently shoplifted knife as a 'terrorist' seems both to mislabel and unnecessarily glamorise what happened in Streatham yesterday

I'm so old, I remember when the idea that the rich should pay a higher rate of tax - on the impeccably logical ground that they have more money - was everyday commonsense accepted by all major parties

Your regular reminder that the Lib Dems could have backed a Corbyn caretaker government, turfed Boris Johnson out of 10 Downing Street, and stopped Brexit. They didn't. We are where we are.

The Claire Fox I knew as a Revolutionary Communist student all those years ago contemptuously referred to the Union Jack as 'the butcher's apron'. Today she ended up waving it in the European Parliament, as a self-styled libertarian MEP for a jingoistic hard right party.

If the Grenfell Inquiry proves that Kensington & Chelsea Tory councillors ordered the fitting of cladding they knew to be a fire risk, they should find themselves in the dock for corporate manslaughter

British companies GEC and Plessey were once world leaders in telecomms infrastructure. That the UK's choice of 5G suppliers comes down to Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson is testament to Thatcher's deliberate sacrifice of manufacturing industry on the altar of monetarism.

Anywhere I've ever worked, anyone who deliberately deleted important files would be picking up their P45 before the end of the day

If I were Emily Thornberry, I'd go easy on branding the SNP as Tartan Tories. They're the only party to win an election on a social democratic platform anywhere in Britain in the last decade.

Just walked past Ridley Road market, where two dozen homeless are being fed by charitable endeavour. We're back in Victorian London.

Nobody's obliged to like, endorse or vote for Long-Bailey or Burgon. But given that both are qualified lawyers, it's risible to suggest that either of them lack brains.

Can't imagine why Boris Johnson thinks Jennifer Arcuri start-up companies are worthy of public money but northern Labour councils aren't. Anybody got any ideas?

If only Nick Clegg had stood up for the poor and vulnerable with the same determination with which he stands up for Facebook