Labour is entering its ‘Zanu-PF’ era
If you hadn’t heard of Rushanara Ali until her resignation yesterday, then good for you. If you still hadn’t until…
What will Rachel Reeves take credit for next?
There’s no rest, they say, for the wicked. Nobody, however, ever deigns to inform us what amount of downtime will…
Migration has radicalised middle England
One of the symptoms that something has truly shifted is unrest in unlikely places. The sleepy heartlands of middle England…
Sadiq Khan will wear his Trump insult as a badge of honour
The Trump Golf Course at Turnberry in Scotland looks like a middle-ranking complex for assisted living. It is all plastic…
The Epping migrant delusion
The origin of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes is difficult to pin down: could it be 19th century Denmark…
Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon
When French General Bosquet watched the 600 men of the Light Brigade charge helplessly into the Russian heavy artillery at…
Sausage King Starmer’s bad afternoon on the grill
Sir Keir Starmer has a sausage problem. Stop sniggering at the back. Not only was there his infamous slip demanding…
Life is good in Starmerland. It’s a shame about Britain
It was clearly hot in the House of Commons today. The Lib Dem benches were a sea of pastel colours,…
I’ve got Donald Trump to thank for my unusual middle name
Never make a drunken bet. At about 3 a.m. one fateful morning, pre-pandemic and several bottles down, a friend and…
PMQs is truly cursed
In the Fifth Circle of Dante’s Inferno, the damned are cursed to bob on the surface of the Styx, scrapping…
Emmanuel Macron would love to be King
When Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito visited Windsor Castle in the early years of the 21st century, the Queen Mother gave…
The ghost of Liz Truss haunts parliament
Today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the state of the economy was dominated by two people who…
Admit it: most wedding speeches are awful
Perhaps the most traumatic part of attending an American wedding – much worse than the bridesmaids coming in the wrong…
At PMQs we saw Keir Starmer’s ugly side
‘When a Knight won his spurs in the stories of old, he was gentle and brave, he was gallant and…
Welfare reform died in parliament last night
That this government is bad at maths will not come as a surprise to many readers. Thus far, however, in…
Liz Kendall’s humiliating welfare climb-down
‘This government believes in equality and social justice,’ began Liz Kendall. Which government she was describing is anyone’s guess. I…
Keir Starmer is seriously stupid
Sir Keir has returned from his worldwide statesmanship tour. Barely the edge of a photograph went ungurned in, not a…
Rachel Reeves looks increasingly petrified
Sir Keir Starmer was in the Hague. I know, I know, you’d have thought they would have done Blair first.…
David Lammy has nothing to say
The day started badly for David Lammy. Well – we don’t know that for sure – it’s feasible that first…
‘Grim’ Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying triumph is a bleak day for parliament
The portents this morning were grim. The Grim Leadreaper was doing her HR manager of Hades act, buzzing around with…
Rayner’s PMQs performance will trouble Starmer
As you might have noticed from the crowds weeping in the streets and the appearance of sackcloth, ashes and rent,…
Starmer looked out of place in the mountains with Sky’s Beth Rigby
Sir Keir Starmer was doing an interview with Beth Rigby in the lush mountain landscape of Canada. Hardly a man…
Kemi was at her best skewering Labour on grooming gangs
Yvette Cooper had come to the House of Commons to shut, as loudly and with as much gusto as she…
Tim Farron, the last of the old-school liberals
Today the Assisted Suicide Bill returned to the House of Commons. Amid its many flaws and complications, perhaps most important…
The spending review was 45 minutes I will never get back
Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to…
