Darren Grimes: Why I’m backing this new campaign to defund the BBC

It’s single mothers like mine that are hardest hit by non-payment of the licence fee. If you ask me, that’s too high a price to pCome Dancing on free-to-view telly.

Darren Grimes: Since we must use coal, why import it all – when we could instead create jobs by mining it in the North-East?

In 2018, just to transport 4.7million tonnes of Russian coal was equivalent to a whopping 130 jumbo jets whizzing, non-stop, around the globe for a year.

Darren Grimes: A Pride Day? There’s a good case for one. But a whole Pride Month? That’s just virtue signalling.

At the end of the day, being gay in 2020 is ok. We are no longer prime victims of oppression, and we should reject four weeks of self-indulgence and narcissism.

Darren Grimes: In defence of Cummings

It has become increasingly clear that all this is less about what he did and entirely about who he is.

Darren Grimes: I won in court. There are no charges against me. The Electoral Commission is discredited. Now there must be a reckoning.

This is a regulator out of control – and we need a full review of the law, too, which is beyond the understanding of the institution created to oversee it.

Darren Grimes: These devalued degrees are infantalising a generation of young people

There are now so many of them that the degree itself has less impact on employability – this ensuring that they become less economically valuable.

Darren Grimes: Help me to challenge the Electoral Commission’s ruling

I put my head above the parapet and campaigned for Brexit – the decision to penalise me appears vindictive, and threatens to harm our participatory democracy.