Over the last few days we have seen a government minister frogmarch out from a dinner a climate protester by the neck and the reporting of an argument between a Tory leadership candidate and his girlfriend.
The Jeremy Kyle Show was axed last week after 14 years on the air following the death by suicide of one of the show’s guests.
The government has presided over real terms cuts to school and college budgets and it is not an over-statement to say that education is now in crisis.
The recent murder of 14-year-old Jaden Moodie in Leyton was a new low in a wave of violent crime that has been sweeping across and beyond London.
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi – which the Saudi government now admits did take place – bears a striking resemblance to another extra-judicial murder.
The National Health Service has just celebrated its 70th birthday and last weekend I took part in street stalls in Wanstead, Leytonstone and Leyton. It has often been said that the NHS is now the nearest thing Britain possesses to a national religion.
Last week, the Department for Work and Pensions said that it would not challenge a court ruling that will mean that every applicant for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have their claim reviewed.
We are in the middle of another winter – and another NHS winter crisis. This has now become almost expected.
Last week’s Budget was one of the grimmest in years, if not decades.
Despite huge pressure from inside and outside Westminster, the government is still yet to pause the clumsy rollout of Universal Credit (UC), its flagship welfare reform, which is causing homelessness and hunger wherever it goes.
