The Daily Mail is pulling your leg

The top half of the front cover of the Daily Mail today is of course trivial: the big story of the meeting between Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon is, obviously, the plummeting relations between Westminster and Holyrood and whether we will still have a United Kingdom in five years’ time. The big story is not the quality of two middle-aged women’s legs. But it is also really rather brilliant in how it has worked as a bait for the Left – which by reacting in an absurdly overblown way has merely revealed its own obsession with trivia.

In a country where millions are struggling to afford a decent home, where cases of slavery still emerge, where the government has just brought in a tax cut for people inheriting million pound homes while simultaneously trying to jack up taxes for tradesmen on modest earnings, you would think there was ample for the Left to get its teeth into.