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…
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…
