Our man in the US wins scant support from either party leader

At PMQs neither May nor Corbyn seemed outraged by the resignation of Kim Darroch as US ambassador. The gaps on the benches grow larger every week as more and more MPs follow their therapists’ advice and steer clear of prime minister’s questions. Yet there is still a hardcore of some 250 or so who can’t resist their weekly self-harm fix. A session guaranteed to leave everyone involved feeling cheapened and no more informed. The irony is that the biggest masochists are the two ma