Madeline Grant

Starmer looked out of place in the mountains with Sky’s Beth Rigby

18 June 2025 6:14 am

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

17 June 2025 3:40 am

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

14 June 2025 1:14 am

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

12 June 2025 3:29 am

Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to…

Ed Miliband is an astonishing Commons performer

11 June 2025 2:08 am

I’m not totally sure where they keep Ed Miliband in between his Commons appearances. Perhaps some sort of deep freeze…

No more Mr Nice Nige

10 June 2025 3:22 am

Rachel Reeves was visiting a gardening club for the retired. ‘Do you come here every week?’ she simpered at some…

Leave our period dramas alone!

7 June 2025 9:00 am

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Jane Austen must begin with a mangled, platitudinous variation on…

It didn’t take Starmer long to morph into Brezhnev

5 June 2025 1:40 am

It has taken Sir Keir Starmer just under 11 months to enter his Brezhnev era. Portly, autocratic and reliant on…

Make Bond great again

1 March 2025 9:00 am

One of the great recurring James Bond tropes is to make it look as though 007 has actually been killed…

Tough love

25 July 2020 9:00 am

Covid has changed the dating game