Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

"The people who do the most harm to this country are those who arrive by private jets, not small boats," says Liberal Democrat councillor Andrew Tromans.

A few years ago, I might have been inclined to agree. But this year we don't need to worry. The Cop summit is being held in Brazil.

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If the Panorama scandal defies belief, it is even more incredible that the BBC's cheerleaders are now complaining of a 'coup'. How can anyone defend what has happened? Deliberately splicing together two unrelated sections of a speech, delivered an hour apart, to make it look like Donald Trump was inciting an insurrection is not a mistake, as some apologists are saying. It is not even the uber-fashionable 'unconscious bias'. This was a willful attempt to mislead viewers in a manner that would be more befitting some hare-brained social-media activist than Britain's national broadcaster. What I........

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