Extreme Times Demand Innocuous Fiddling

Concerning the question of whether the plebs are poor enough, it is natural and predictable that Team Starmer's chief adviser should be the executive chair of a supermarket chain; yet the latest advice about what might be done to mitigate the effects of the Persian Crusade may still breach the bounds of what is moderate and sensible. Writing in that bastion of the honest and impoverished, the Murdoch on Sunday, the prosperity champion proclaims that he has requested Team Starmer to give its gracious consideration to a purely timid and temporary limit on oil profiteering. Few measures are more suited to Team Starmer policy than hopelessly diluted versions of those which should have been implemented decades ago and intensified with each new stage of the climate catastrophe; nevertheless, given Team Starmer's well-known ideological indulgence towards water profiteering, even the suggestion of a consideration may still be sliding a little too far towards the un-British and the antisemitic.