Kemi Badenoch guns for Stonewall – and the charity sector
Kemi Badenoch’s war with Stonewall opened up on a new front this evening. Earlier this year, the business secretary incurred…
Bully XL owners team up with anti-Brexit Steve Bray outside Tory conference
It wouldn’t be a Tory party conference without hundreds of protesters lining the streets. Manchester has not disappointed. From trade…
Why did the Observer bury a poll showing Starmer’s shrinking lead?
As Conservative conference kicks off, there is a crumb of comfort for the Prime Minister in the latest polling in…
GB News civil war intensifies
It’s safe to say that this hasn’t been GB News’s finest week and there’s no sign of the drama stopping…
Rishi’s media round derailed by HS2
Ah the regional BBC round: the chance for any aspiring local reporter to make a name for themselves. Every year,…
The knives sharpen for GB News
The GB News row rumbles on, with its enemies seeing the perfect chance to call for its closure. A genuinely…
It’s Fox vs Wootton, as GB News debacle deepens
Oh dear. It seems that the self-proclaimed ‘People’s Channel’ has been at it again. GB News has been forced to…
BLM protestor admits fundraiser fraud
Three years on from the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol, an organiser of a Black Lives Matter…
Johnsons deny sacking their nanny for having a drink with Boris
Childcare can be a contentious issue at the best of times. So Mr S was intrigued to read of reports…
Melvyn Bragg takes a pop at Gary Lineker
Radio 4 show In Our Time celebrates its landmark 1,000th episode this week. Host Melvyn Bragg is one of the Beeb’s…
Watch: GB News hosts clash over Russell Brand
It all kicked off on GB News this morning, following a joint Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into…
Seven of the worst people in politics, according to Rory Stewart
If only more politicians were like Rory Stewart. That is pretty much the gist of his book Politics on the…
China hawks urge unity on spy row
It’s been a difficult week for Sinosceptics in Westminster, following the revelation that a parliamentary researcher was arrested in March on…
BBC denies cancelling Roisin Murphy over puberty blockers
The Róisín Murphy row rumbles on. The Irish singer suffered a pile-on last month after she criticised puberty blockers and…
Boris’s Brexit blunder on customs unions revealed
Oh dear. When it came to getting Brexit done, Boris Johnson was, it seems, winging it more than he might…
Coming soon: Liz Truss’s book
First it was Nadine Dorries, then it was Theresa May. Now Liz Truss has become the latest female Tory MP…
‘Chinese spy’ arrested in the Commons
Oh dear. The Sunday Times is tonight reporting that a Westminster parliamentary researcher has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China.…
Braverman backs Douglas Murray
Stop the presses: common sense has broken out in parliament. On Thursday, Suella Braverman delivered an update on the anti-terror…
Watch: Macron booed at World Cup opening ceremony
You know it’s bad when the rugby fans are booing you. Poor Emmanuel Macron had his big moment upstaged last…
BBC disinformation correspondent accused of lying on her CV
Oh dear. Could things get any worse for the fledgling BBC Verify, launched to combat the scourge of fake news?…
Carol Vorderman suffers a blow in her scrap with the Tories
Carol Vorderman’s campaign against the Tories suffered a setback today after the ex-Countdown host climbed down from a row with…
Blundering mandarins forget £3.6 billion
Oh dear. It seems that Sir Humphrey has messed up again. Perusing parliament’s records this morning, Mr S was struck…
Tory MP Chris Pincher quits and triggers another by-election
To no-one’s surprise, Chris Pincher has now quit as a Tory MP, preferring to resign now rather than drag out…
Just Stop Oil protests cost Met police over £9 million
Staging sit-ins, slow marches and protests throughout the spring and summer, Just Stop Oil (JSO) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) have been…
Kemi becomes the Tory members’ favourite
When the king abdicates, who inherits the throne? Following Ben Wallace’s departure as Defence Secretary, it seems that Kemi Badenoch…