Commons update: that which cannot be mentioned is not mentioned

The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, right, sizes up Britain’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, at the Foreign Office on Wednesday. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe phoney war continues. With Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn having signed a non-aggression pact – any mention of Brexit in effect has been banned while the Tories and Labour go through the motions of pointless cross-party talks – prime minister’s questions has become an echo chamber. A place where th