Paul McCartney and the worst birthday party in Britain

There’s no evidence that 82-year Paul “Fab Macca Wacky Thumbs Aloft” McCartney is getting more right-wing in his old age – but those attending his gigs certainly are.

Spotted together watching Macca at London’s O2 last night were Sun political editor and Boris Johnson fanboy Harry Cole and David Maddox, the ardent Brexiteer who was bafflingly poached from the Express by the Independent earlier this year.

What were their favourites? Being for the Benefit of Ultra Right? We Can’t Work it Out? Turnip Fields Forever? The Wrong and Whining Toad (a tribute to Nigel Farage)?

At the same time over in Parliament’s Churchill Room, meanwhile, was an event rivalling the recent Guido Fawkes 20th anniversary dinner for the biggest gathering of terrible people in one room.

Gathered together for the joint 60th and 50th birthday celebrations of Reform deputy leader Richard “Big Dicky” Tice and partner Isabel Oakeshott respectively were the likes of Suella Braverman, Reform MP and convicted criminal James McMurdock, self-styled “Britain’s strictest teacher” Katharine Birbalsingh, Talk’s Alex Phillips, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Mike Graham, YouTuber Dan Wootton and GB News’ Angelos Frangopoulos and Camilla Tominey.

It’s like the New European’s Shit List had a party and they forgot to invite us!