The prime minister has thrown his most senior civil servant under a bus. "Sir" Keir blames "Sir" Ollie for not telling him the truth and causing him to appoint Mandelson to be US ambassador when, if he'd known then what he knows now, he wouldn't have...

    But do we care? Of course, the opposition parties clearly do - and in the run-up to the 7 May elections they smell blood and want to go in for the kill. But it's not up to them under this very polite political system. There'll be no formal jousting nor executions in the Commons. The Labour Cabinet and MPs have to "kill" Starmer - and they probably prefer to wait until after the 7 May elections before drawing their swords.

    At that point, Starmer himself will serve as a scapegoat for the government's dodgy policies, non- delivery of promises and cuts which have been implemented in the public sector - including in the NHS, even while it struggles in a state of near-collapse.

    It was already predicted that the Labour Party candidates were going to be slaughtered on 7 May. Maybe after this latest Mandelson debacle their rivals will do even better. But every worker knows that voting changes nothing, and that it's collective class action that's needed!

    Today it's the big picture outside of Westminster, Cardiff or Edinburgh, which counts more than anything. And so we watch as the government hopelessly struggles to deal with the increase in the cost of energy - and offers a tiny amount off our bills to try to show it is somehow in control.

    And we're told that the real problem isn't actually the Netanyahu-Trump war against Iran and the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, but the linkage of electricity prices to gas prices. So Reeves says she is going to break this link... But if she can do that now, why didn't she do it before?

    Energy prices here are among the highest in the world. That was already the case before this war, thanks to longstanding privatisation and profiteering. If the government took these utilities into public hands, hey presto, prices could be controlled. Will it? Of course not. "Labour" governments have always been stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea when it comes to attacking the rich. So they just turn bluer to cope with the contradiction.

    The working class could offer a "red" alternative, however, by taking over control. By striking on Tuesday and Thursday tube workers are offering a small demonstration of our potential to stop the works. It's that potential that we need to utilise!