Question Time 5th November 2026
The Panel:
Lucy Powell (Labour)
Luke Evans (Conservative)
Paul Nowak (TUC)
Tim Stanley (Columnist)
John Amaechi (Psychologist and ex-NBA star)
Venue: Liverpool
The Trump Derangement Syndrome is off the scale. Bizarrely, the unit of measurement of such is the ‘Westminster’, with the attached political-media bubble beyond the red zone following this week’s alleged Democrat mid-term victory over The Donald. A love-in not reciprocated, as evidenced by the viral exchange between Lie News’ irritating James Matthews and the ‘first muslim elected to the U.S. Senate’, Abdul El-Sayed.
In the shouty shouty, Michigan’s new senator gripped the newshound by the shoulders while asking if he is registered to vote in that state. The follow-up being, ‘So why would I care to have a conversation with you?… I don’t care what you think.’ Listen to her! El-Sayed went on to claim that Sky has only five viewers. Fair dos, still five more than readers and commenters we have here at G-P.
Yes, alleged victory. For in the Midwest there lies an electoral district bearing this humble author’s unusual Debatable Lands surname. Behold, in Worth Saying, Kentucky (don’t look it up, it’s not actually my real name), the Republicans won every position – even the County Property Valuation Administrator. The result that matters!
Unpleasant Lucy Powell (Labour) is the one who said on a BBC Radio 4 programme that the mass rape of British girls by Muslims is ‘an old chestnut’. Lucy has never had a job. Educated at Parrs Wood High School in Greater Manchester’s posh Didsbury, Lucy went up to Somerville, Oxford, to graduate in Chemistry. The 52-year-old continued her studies at King’s College, London, before a career of non-jobs in PR and public affairs took her to Westminster politics.
A member of Burnham’s North Mafia, the mother of two is Secretary of State for Education and MP for Manchester Central. Not her real name, Lucy Maria Williamson, her husband is James Williamson, a consultant in emergency medicine (ie millionaire doctor) and a former Chair of the Socialist Health Association.
Luke Evans is the Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth and Shadow Minister for Health and Social Care, educated privately at Port Regis School. Despite the brainpower available at such institutions, Port Regis’s website is unusable and consists of headings and subheadings (including ‘fees’) that disappear before you can click on them. QT Review HQ would guess at the aforementioned being extortionate.
After school, Mr Evans attended the University of Birmingham’s medical school before qualifying as a GP. Keeping it in the family, the 43-year-old’s parents were a doctor and a nurse, his two brothers also went into medicine, as did Luke’s wife.
A graduate in Urban Studies from Liverpool John Moores University, Paul Nowak’s TUC profile claims he has ‘always been employed on temporary and agency contracts, so understands the insecurity of never having a permanent contract.’ Hmm.
However, his LinkedIn profile shows his career to be a somewhat modest list of non-jobs by QT panellists’ standards, not quite worth their own addendum. His roles include: Member of the Court of the Bank of England, President of Unity Trust Bank, Member of the Strategic Trade Advisory Group, Member of the BEIS Green Jobs Task Force, ACAS council member and Member of the Board of Trustees of the People’s History Museum.
A wag might pronounce him a professional member. Not to worry, Comrade Paul is now the £161,000 per annum General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
Grammar boy Timothy Randolph Stanley (Judd School, Tonbridge) is a graduate of modern history from Trinity College, Cambridge. A London media bubble lifer, his BBC work includes Moral Maze, Thought for the Day, and being on Question Time for longer than Fiona Bruce. His first appearance was in 2014, when the sanctimonious David Dimbleby still chaired. In the incestuous nature of such things, in the corresponding QT last year (7th November, Sunderland), Tim appeared alongside tonight’s fellow panellist Paul Nowak.
John Amaechi, not quite his real name, Professor John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi OBE, also enjoyed a selective education – at Stockport Grammar. Born in the US to a British mother and Nigerian father, John, at 6’10, became a journeyman basketball player, the high point of his career being 93 NBA starts for various teams across eight years.
While competing, he studied psychology and is a Chartered Psychologist as accredited in the UK by the British Psychological Society, and a Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School. According to himself, other credits include ‘respected organisational psychologist, an OBE, Chartered Scientist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, bestselling New York Times and Sunday Times author, Research Fellow at the University of East London, and Founder of APS Intelligence.’
Amaechi Performance Systems Intelligence (APSI), is a consultancy working to improve leadership and communication skills and, ominously, ‘organisational diversity’. Their website also promises ‘to reduce resistance and help clients realise their winning edge by delivering evidence-based multidisciplinary excellence. We meet you at your starting point and design the most effective and right-sized solution.’
Might QT Review HQ benefit from a bit of right-sized solution? Only one way to find out – book an exploratory video conference call with Chief Executive Officer Dr Peter Carroll about our needs. With far from a full calendar on his online booking service, Dr Carroll appears to work from 11 am to 3 pm on weekdays, and knocks off at 1 pm on a Friday. Shall we watch Question Time instead?
As for being a ‘best selling author’, Professor Amaechi’s mighty work, Man in the Middle, sits at 611,913th on the Amazon best-sellers list, a disappointing 550,255 places behind the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom.
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Question One. Maybe the TDS isn’t so bad after all as the first question was about changes to immigration policy. Lucy Powell, wearing the smallest poppy pin imaginable, repeated a La Bruce introductory comment regarding the ‘Boris wave’. She went on to talk drivel, including claiming that at the end of the pandemic there were no care workers.
Tim Stanley referenced the Boris wave too, saying 3% of the population have come here since two thousand and twenty-something – many of them on dubious social care visas. Terrified of words, he referred to what he called, ‘quote, unquote, illegal immigration’. A new opt-out for social care workers gives a green light to the most controversial part of the Boris wave – and their dependants. He celebrated a diverse and tolerant society, but his heart bled for refugees who get a white nationalist backlash over rape gangs and other crime.
Another small poppy from comrade Nowak. He decided Liverpool was built on migration. He was pro mass, uncontrolled, unlimited immigration despite it depriving his members of employment. He played multicultural cricket with his own recent ancestors who are somehow Chinese, Polish and Irish. We have an ageing population. Somebody tell Paul immigrants age too. He seemed to think saying ‘werk’ instead of ‘work’ made him sound working class and northern.
John Amaechi, sporting the goatee that Jimmy Hill would have ended up with if he’d lived to be 150, said he worked in the NHS for 10 years. Did he? Is he an Arday? Almost. Leaving the immigrants to give the enemas and wipe up the sick, John served as a Non-Executive Director of an NHS foundation trust where he chaired the HR Scrutiny Committee. He was pro mass uncontrolled immigration too and saw immigrants as scapegoats, not least because they have to earn money before they’re allowed to settle here. The carefully selected BBC audience applauded. A black woman with an even less Liverpool accent was allowed to monologue on behalf of open borders.
Lucy chipped in to say her parents are immigrants. Of more relevance is that Lucy’s parents were public sector wallahs, a headteacher/education consultant, and a director of social work at the National Teaching and Advisory Service.
Tim interrupted to say the numbers are too high and too many incomers are dependents. Why can’t the NEETs work in social care?
Back on message, Question Two was about the ‘rout’ of Donald Trump. He is going to be bogged down by a Democratic Congress, claimed Tim, while they investigate him and his family. Trump was elected not to go to war, but he has. In various states, the Republicans played the man and not the ball – a strategy rejected by voters. The politics of nastiness has to come to an end. The left would never dream of piling into someone like Nigel Farage, would they, Tim, or forsake policy to investigate a president and his family.
Luke Evans didn’t know what was going to happen next. I’ll tell him. The Democrats will be a disaster. Trump will block their bills with his presidential veto while continuing to rule through executive orders. The winners are Vance and Rubio, one of whom will head a post-2028 grown-up Republican White House – complete with a bigly, bigly, shiny new perfect ballroom.
Paul ranted about ‘Trump’s illegal war in Iran’. Hmm. By that I presume he means Islam’s war against Jews.
John Amaechi was more cautious. The BBC-inspired jubilation is not necessarily based upon truth. He, in a roundabout way, referenced the baseness of ‘grab em by the p*ssy’ et al. The American voters have deserted Trumpism because of inflation. When the economic cycle improves, they’ll return. In anticipation of which, La Bruce informed us at the top of the programme, John has given up his US citizenship.
A tinged lady in the audience with a non-Liverpool accent wanted Lucy Powell to use the education system to change human nature. An Irishman was tired of all of this and assumed the entire population of America agreed with him. Lucy blamed the consequences of Labour’s failing economic policies – not least today’s interest rate rise – on the war in Iran.
Paul Nowak finished off by playing Nigel Farage instead of the ball which, they tell me, makes the millionaire never had a job Champagne leftie a hard right Trumpian.
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Never mind that nonsense. Back in the real world, and as we approach Remembrance Sunday, news arrived today of the passing of a distant relative by marriage. Mathew McKinnon Pattinson, my brother-in-law’s uncle by adoption, is dead at the age of 102. An accolade in itself, his other achievements include growing up in an orphanage and being a Methodist lay preacher. Oh, and volunteering to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, joining the SAS, fighting at Monte Cassino, and, post-war, hunting for Nazi suspects who executed captured members of his old regiment.
We salute him and his generation.
© Always Worth Saying 2026
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