Happy Remembrance Sunday one and all. With the Green party soaring in the polls, who better to have on the weekly TV circuit than Zack Polanski? Sporting both white and red poppies – work that one out – the onetime hypnotherapist was grilled by Sky’s Trevor Phillips on the party’s plans for defence. Predictably, Polanski is neither fan of the nuclear deterrent nor Keir Starmer, suggesting that the UK currently has ‘got a Prime Minister who’s spending £15 billion on nuclear weapons and at the same time saying there’s no money to lift the two child benefit cap.’

It was left to Phillips to point out the obvious: such sums are spent on Trident in order to avert conflict in the first place. ‘Surely’, he remarked, ‘the deterrent is valuable in a world that has Vladimir Putin in it?’ Apparently

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