Sky's Sophie Ridge and Faisal Islam are smashing BBC's political coverage out of the park - but only Ms Ridge can do this...

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Well, she did start her career as a <i>News of the World</i> trainee, covering showbiz stories. Now, this Italian economics journalistic isn't quite as fanciable (women might feel differently), but he doesn't half talk a lot of sense on Brexit:<br />
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Who knew the word "Braaayyyyykkkkzzzzeeet" could sound so dramatic?<br />
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Speaking of sounding dramatic, I've been enjoying the stream of shadow cabinet resignation letters which have been released at regular intervals over the past two days. Of the lot, I thought this one from Chris Evans (<i>who he? ed - </i>no idea, but presumably not the soon-to-be-sacked <i>Top Gear</i> presenter), was the most amusing:<br />
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The last paragraph at the bottom of the first page - describing Corbyn heading straight from a PLP meeting to address a rally of shrieking Momentum morons - echoes a satirical piece by the <i>Telegraph</i>'s Michael Deacon written shortly after Corby's election as leader. In it, Deacon pictured Corbyn, newly-elected as Prime Minister, standing at the window of 10 Downing Street, gazing at a gaggle of hard left anti-government demonstrators chanting for him to resign. After a while, Corbyn slips out the back and joins them, enthusiastically calling for his own dismissal.<br />
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What a relief not to have an anti-Corbyn Labourite use the inevitable "d" word - decent - to describe their "leader". Mrs. Thatcher resigned after <i>winning</i>&nbsp;the first round of a leadership election. 81% of Steptoe's MPs have just informed him that he no longer commands their confidence - but he's evidently not going to budge until his party is an unrestorable smoking ruin. Similarly, I'm thoroughly sick of being assured that this ghastly old terrorist-lovin' anti-democrat "doesn't have a racist bone in his body." In that case, maybe he shouldn't routinely ally himself with screaming anti-Semites and actually bring himself to utter the word "Israel". Man's an absolute shower.<br />
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Finally, a tweet about the far left "journalist" Paul Mason:<br />
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This was retweeted by the author, Robert Harris, with the comment: "One of the great holy fools of the age". I'm not sure what the word <i>holy</i>&nbsp;is doing in there. What I can't get over is the fact that this monumental idiot (Mason - not Harris) was once <i>Newsnight</i>'s business editor - meaning that some bright spark at the BBC once believed that the best person to interpret this country's business affairs was a former member of the Trotskyist Workers' Power group (?), who more recently described his political beliefs in these words: "I am a radical social democrat who favours the creation of a peer-to-peer sector (co-ops, open source etc) alongside the market and the state, as part of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy." A truly scandalous appointment, and an insult to license-payers.</div>