Creasy’s opposition is the best advert for Mahmood’s migrant crackdown
One must say this for the Home Secretary, she is a Parliamentary Pugilist. While the general demeanour of the government…
Even Labour MPs are tiring of Starmer
With the country looking forward to Rachel Reeves’s big moment next week – in much the same way you would…
Sydney Sweeney, the Hollywood radical
Every time you feel down about Britain’s out-of-touch elites, a look across the Atlantic is a reassuring reminder that it…
Keir Starmer can’t even commit governmental suicide
It’s not often the Prime Minister gets a derisive laugh from the House of Commons for telling them that he…
The BBC’s MP defenders have all lost their minds
The BBC’s editing scandal has reached the House of Commons. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy made a statement by the government…
David Lammy has a future in panto
Beadle’s About ran from 1986 to 1996. In it, Jeremy Beadle would blunder round the United Kingdom playing elaborate practical…
Calamity Lammy had no answers on the wandering Algerian
One of the things we ought to consider more in judging politicians is whether they add to the gaiety of…
Jeffrey Epstein may yet wreak more havoc on Keir Starmer
Short of dressing the former Duke of York in a Carmen Miranda-style fruit headdress and attaching two Catherine wheels to…
Landlords need protecting too
Do you know how much faeces 30 dogs can produce over a couple of years? I have some idea because…
The assisted suicide bill’s backers are abysmal
In the midst of all the slip ups, the corruption and the lies, you might have forgotten the most consequential…
Have you heard Keir Starmer’s grating new catchphrase?
‘That’s the difference a Labour government makes!’ The Prime Minister has taken to ending the self-congratulatory rants he deploys in…
Calamity Lammy had no answers on the migrant sex offender debacle
Hadush Kebatu’s Magical Mystery Tour of North London was the subject of this afternoon’s debate in the Commons. In a…
How America’s Wasps lost their sting
They moved, with a sort of nonchalant intent, up the aisle to make communion with their God; the men in…
Ellie Reeves is even more incompetent than her sister Rachel
Have you ever wondered what a less competent Rachel Reeves would be like? If you’re a small business owner, the…
Big Ange just can’t say sorry
When John Profumo had to resign due to scandalous behaviour, he famously went to clean lavatories. Angela Rayner, by contrast,…
Keir Starmer is the king of porkies
Samworth Brothers are the biggest producers of pork pies in Britain. Or so they claim. I suspect they will find…
When will Labour be honest about its China spy problem?
Yvette Cooper managed to say ‘let me be clear’ twice, in a couple of minutes during her interview with Nick…
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…
