I’ve raged against all our recent prime ministers, says Matthew Parris in The Spectator. I called Theresa May the “death star of British politics”, Boris Johnson a “moral toad”, and Liz Truss a “planet-sized mass of over-confidence and ambition teetering on a pinhead of a political brain”. Soon we’ll all turn on Rishi Sunak, too. But while anyone could compile a long list of “stupid little blunders”, it’s hard to think of a single “big thing” any of them did that made the country worse. The problem is that they’ve all been saddled with the impossible task of making Brexit work, which is the fault “not of our politicians, but of the British people.”

Here we go again, says Libby Purves in The Times. That “thespian dementor” Daniel Radcliffe, “plucked from nowhere” to star in Harry Potter as a child, says the woman who wrote it is a baddie. With her “mild and anxious” views on women’s privacy and safety, JK Rowling is, he says, “hurting” countless troubled young fans, and he wants them to know “not everybody in the franchise” is so keen to “invalidate their identities”. What a “load of old Hogwarts”. Yes, fame is a “brain-fuddling drug”, but it’s “astonishingly nasty” of Radcliffe and his young co-stars to join the batty chorus accusing Rowling of “transphobia”.