Kemi’s speech was good. But is anyone listening?
Prior to Kemi Badenoch’s arrival the Conservative party played us recordings of her voice piped over dramatic lift muzak. Conference…
Poor Lammy and Hermer got pulped by Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick has been walking a tightrope. Over the course of the Conservative party conference he has been having to…
Mel Stride bewilders me
What is the purpose of Mel Stride? I don’t ask this to be personal I just genuinely don’t know. In…
Kemi’s conference welcome speech was strange and funereal
The voice of Keir Starmer echoed round the Conservative party’s conference hall. ‘Free of charge digital ID’ chanted the disembodied…
Starmer’s speech was nothing but stale, reheated guff
‘Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel’. So wrote Dr Johnson. Sadly for the good Doctor he was an…
Labour conference is a triumph of anti-talent
In German they have a concept whose equivalent is sorely needed in discussion of British politics: ‘anti-talent’. It means exactly…
Keir’s cabinet of rotters are a comedy gift
Day one of the Labour conference – oh frabjous day! The annual gathering of people who hate each other just…
Ed Davey is the perfect Lib Dem leader
Ed Davey’s speech at the Lib Dem conference began with a darkened stage on which you could just about make…
Has Farage managed to put Boris to bed?
How do you solve a problem like B Johnson? It has troubled the Conservative party since his departure, not least as…
Is Grey Gardens the greatest documentary ever made?
A middle-aged woman wearing what looks like Princess Diana’s infamous ‘revenge dress’ and a balaclava from an IRA funeral approaches…
This peer’s Assisted Suicide speech was truly bonkers
We’re back again in the House of Peers this week as they once again give a leaden beating to Leadbeater’s…
Donald Trump and Keir Starmer make a very strange pair
There is just something innately funny about seeing Keir Starmer and Donald Trump together. Two men so obviously different; in…
Only the boot-lickers will defend Mandelson now
Despite the Prime Minister presumably going to bed each night, trotters crossed, eyes screwed up and wishing hard as if…
Danny Kruger is Reform’s best recruit yet
In fairness, I suspect plenty of Tory MPs are looking for reasons to get out of party conference this year.…
Theresa May’s attack on the Assisted Suicide Bill was phenomenal
‘This was Parliament at its best’, so went the inane and factually incorrect mantra of Kim Leadbeater as her Assisted…
How could Starmer not see the Mandelson disaster coming?
‘Oh, Mandy Well, you kissed me And stopped me from shaking And I need you today Oh, Mandy’ So sang…
Even Rachel Reeves pitied Keir Starmer at PMQs
Statute 343.36 in the US state of Minnesota reads thus: ‘No person shall operate, run or participate in a contest,…
When Labour’s best bet is Bridget Phillipson
It’s always nice when the muses of tragedy and comedy seem to be working in perfect sync: nowhere is this…
Nadine Dorries was a low point in Reform’s Campest Show On Earth
Reform had clearly planned the Campest Show On Earth for their conference this year. Sparklers, club anthems and strobe lights:…
Paraffin Powell comes to Angela Rayner’s defence
Imagine a school assembly run by the most boring narcissists imaginable. Right – you’ve come close to picturing the first…
How could Badenoch fail to skewer Starmer this time?
It was taxes that eventually did for Al Capone. And Spiro Agnew. And Judy Garland. So now the taxman’s bell…
It’s impossible to take the Greens seriously
The Green party’s leadership announcement was live streamed using a phone which seemed to be wrapped in clingfilm and held…
Keir Starmer is Downing Street’s David Brent
How many resets does it take to make a doom loop? In another attempt to work out what the problem…
The ADHD racket
In 1620, in the Staffordshire market town of Bilston, a teenage boy decided he didn’t much fancy going to school.…
Why Rachel Reeves will keep designing terrible taxes
I suspect most of us long ago gave up on expecting any humility from our politicians – indeed, the less…
