Labour in limbo over Covid curbs
Wes Streeting has enjoyed something of a dream start since his promotion to shadow health secretary a month ago. Confident…
Diane Abbott’s Zero Covid crusade
With Christmas over, the turkey consumed and Maughamtide been and gone, the eyes of an anxious nation have turned once…
Braverman’s brush with the law
Ah student politics: is there anything quite like it? The strange creatures it attracts, the passions it unleashes, the adolescent…
Liverpool’s painting purge
Merseyside – the home of Roger McGough, Willy Russell and the Beatles. But it seems that despite the area’s reputation as…
The BBC’s mysterious missing Xinjiang evidence
Parliament has packed up for the holidays, with MPs and peers spending their final days in SW1 desperately dodging the…
Mail exodus to The Times continues
The shenanigans at Northcliffe House have given Mr S much to write about in recent months. Whether it’s Geordie Greig’s…
Foreign honours for Hunt and May
Not many people here in Westminster have a good word to say about the Theresa May years. But down in tiny…
Four times Boris said this Christmas would be better than last
‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…’ Or it certainly was until Omicron intervened. For the latest Covid variant has…
John Cleese’s cancel culture hypocrisy
‘Always look on the bright side of life’ sang Monty Python. But it seems that for at least one of the…
Revealed: Durham students’ chilling demands over ‘Rod gate’
The spirit of the Stepford students is back with a vengeance at our top universities, judging by the hysteria which…
Remainers: Brexit led to Covid deaths
Oh dear. For four years, Best for Britain have fought the most ferocious rearguard action since Dunkirk, desperately seeking to overturn…
The Independent’s double standards for JK Rowling
It’s fair to say that JK Rowling’s latest intervention has put the cat amongst the pigeons. The Harry Potter author…
Sir Humphrey wins again
The antics of the mandarin masters of Whitehall have long been of interest to Mr S. Back in September, Steerpike revealed…
Defra’s trophy-worthy blunder
The Sunday People is not normally top of Steerpike’s reading list but Mr S was intrigued to see it yesterday…
Boris Johnson’s Covid Christmas quiz
It’s hard to recall a more brutal set of Sundays for Boris Johnson. Today’s papers are dominated by ‘partygate’ in…
Ian Maxwell: Ghislaine thinks Epstein was murdered
Away from the shenanigans of Westminster, the details of Ghislaine Maxwell’s ongoing trial have been filling our national newspapers this…
Whitehall hit by party cancellations
After a fraught few months, you’d have hoped the hard-pressed masters and mandarins of Whitehall could let their hair down with…
Saint Jacinda’s war on fags
It is a curious irony that the West’s leading progressive icon is probably the most authoritarian leader in the free world…
Hillary Clinton’s latest masterclass
It’s been a tough few years for poor old Hillary. Since losing the 2016 contest to Donald Trump, the ‘most…
Durham students’ Rod Liddle protest in pictures
After eighteen months of Covid, there were some who feared the age-old tradition of the campus leftie had died out.…
Watch: No. 10 staff joking about Downing Street Christmas party
Downing Street have spent the week trying to play down reports of a secret No. 10 party last Christmas when the rest of…
Durham University to probe Rod Liddle speech
The masters of Durham University have reacted with Olympian swiftness to the hysteria which greeted Rod Liddle’s dinner speech at…
Pope blasts ‘Nazi dictatorship’ EU
With England and France feuding, Russia mobilising and Brussels incurring the wrath of Rome, it all feels a bit 1530 in…
Lords blows six figures on correcting its peers
While much ink has been spilled over the Covid Commons, far less has been written about the Lords. Overlooked and…
Rees-Mogg’s No. 10 party jibe
It’s a difficult time for liberty lovers in the cabinet. The country is £400 billion in debt, the risk of…
