Balls keeps on telling porkies

So, it took me two weeks to get out of the blogging mindset – when you read something outrageous, and start mentally composing a blog. I found out that James and Pete had a bet to see how long I’d last for while on holidays – they reckoned four days. Ha! I was back yesterday, and didn’t blog just to show that I could hold out.

But there’s been plenty of temptation during these past two weeks. Not least when my friend Ed Balls tried one of his porkies again. “I actually think it’s an astonishing achievement that we’ve arrested that rise in inequality,” he said two weeks ago. I was going to let that one slip, until I spoke to a senior Tory yesterday who said that inequality was rising in the 1990s. That’s Balls, I told him – but of course, who’s to know?