The total world population is 8,191,988,453, which is around one per cent higher than last year. The still-increasing number of us on the planet is an environmentalist’s nightmare. I’m not surprised that so many countries won’t engage with the ‘climate crisis’ gathering in Brazil.

All babies are born to women, not a single one is born to a man. It’s a biological fact that only women can give birth, so why does the BBC need a special unit to ensure presenters and journalists toe the line and describe pregnant women as ‘pregnant people’? I think it’s great that trans people can live as women; good luck to them, it doesn’t affect me.

I boarded a bus recently, alongside a person who looked like a bloke wearing a lovely, brightly coloured dress. If a police officer had boarded too, they couldn’t have forced me to describe my fellow passenger as a woman when they were clearly no such thing. That’s as ridiculous as our cash-strapped NHS inviting trans women to cervical screening clinics simply to appease trans ideologues. Even the Health Secretary admits they do this to be ‘inclusive.’

Neither the BBC nor the hard left can force us to believe things we know not to be true, but that doesn’t stop them trying. The BBC is evidently in crisis, not just because of its attitude to trans people, but because members of its board have acted on its evident errors and bias.

Regular listeners know it’s relentlessly anti-Brexit, Tory, Reform and Israel. They loathe Trump too, and that could now cost licence fee payers (us) a billion dollars.

The Today programme’s Nick Robinson thinks he’s more important than his interviewees. He’s smug, opinionated and rude to anyone he disagrees with. On Monday, he did a long personal opinion monologue on what I thought was a news programme.

Labour spent 14 years hammering the Tories, and during the election, promised that if they won, they wouldn’t increase taxes. Their manifesto was a fake prospectus.

Just a few weeks ago, Keir Starmer was crowing about his new ‘Hillsborough law.’ It requires public bodies and officials to make full disclosure of all available information – particularly if it’s significant. What breath-taking hypocrisy for the Prime Minister to claim responsibility for a law requiring public bodies and officials to be honest when he constantly misleads the electorate. No wonder he’s under pressure from within.

Older readers may remember that, in 1967, the pound was devalued by 14 per cent overnight. Then the Labour PM, Harold Wilson, infamously claimed, “This would not affect the pound in your pocket.” That crooked clown tried to sell his economic disaster as a positive, asserting that the currency collapse meant we could sell more goods abroad, because they’d be cheaper!

Something similar to the Hillsborough law should require politicians and the BBC to be scrupulously honest and truthful. Perhaps we should lock ‘em up when we catch them lying. I doubt the institutionally woke BBC can ever be neutral.

After the last budget, Rachel said she’d “wiped the slate clean” and “wouldn’t come back for more”. Since then, every employer I know has cut staff (or “working people”, as Rachel prefers to call us). That’s 180,000 fewer jobs, Rachel, and no effort whatsoever to improve falling NHS productivity or cut our ruinous welfare bill; any hope they’ll do that is for the birds.

Without doubt, the Tories imploded at the end – even their own supporters abandoned them. Eighteen months on, their serial incompetence seems almost amateurish compared to Labour’s faltering governance. We’re all going to suffer in the forthcoming budget. Rachel’s definitely coming back for more. It’ll hurt more because she lied to us.

We’ve been had. Sadly, the Tories, Labour and Auntie have all been doing that for decades.