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Dear Humza Sorry, is it okay to be informal? I wondered about Mr Yousaf or First Minister, but you seem like a no-standing-on-ceremony, pull up a...
Pity the sellers of news in today’s crowded media marketplace. Up before the birds to set out their stalls, they wait for the customers, the news...
The hand of history made one of its rare appearances at the weekend, this time coming to rest on the shoulder of Vaughan Gething. The new leader of...
In the early days of Tony Blair’s leadership, when he was busy giving the party a radical makeover, he joked about members’ evolving view of him....
A funny thing happened on the way to Laura Kuenssberg bringing her interview with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves to a close. Some 20 minutes into...
Super Tuesday comes and goes and we inch closer to answering one of the most pressing questions in politics today: who will win the race for the US...
Wonder if George Galloway will remember to pack his P45 and passport? Having been elected to parliament seven times now, the new MP for Rochdale...
Some people cannot take a hint. Nikki Haley had just suffered her fourth straight defeat at the hands of Donald Trump, and in her home state of South...
Committee room 6 in the House of Commons has little in common with Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand or any other of those Vegas venues chosen by the...
A patient lies in a cupboard while others line the corridors on trollies. Alarms shriek left, right and centre. Another urgent case blasts through the...
Please Sir Keir, is this what you call an omnishambles? Or might it be the curse of Vogue rearing its head again? One minute the Labour leader is...
Recess time again in Westminster and Holyrood. After the week the Conservative, Labour and the SNP leaders have had, you might think they are due a...
Question Time came from Glasgow last week. Time was when such an occurrence would have brought BBC management out in a cold sweat, and for good...
It was hardly what you would call a knife-edge result. No one was pulling a late night at the White House or Democrat headquarters, waiting anxiously...
Michael Gove’s departure at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearings in Edinburgh drew a heartfelt response from a chap in the watching crowd. “You are an...
Sir Alex Ferguson, Carol Vorderman, Lord Alan Sugar or Martin Lewis - who do you reckon should be the UK’s next prime minister? That was one of...
Sir Alex Ferguson, Carol Vorderman, Lord Alan Sugar or Martin Lewis - who do you reckon should be the UK’s next prime minister? That was one of...
Several moons ago I worked in a place where the management was very keen on further education. Free night classes for all, that sort of thing. There...
She is questioning his mental fitness and he is getting her name wrong deliberately. Any hope of peace, love and understanding breaking out in New...
On BBC4 tonight there is a rare chance to see Memento Mori, the 1992 adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel. You will recall the tale of elderly...
On BBC4 tonight there is a rare chance to see Memento Mori, the 1992 adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novel. You will recall the tale of elderly...
On BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the producers have taken to opening the programme with the two main guests sitting opposite each other. It is...
Although it may often seem as if the 2024 presidential election has been running since the race ended, history will be made on Monday, January 15,...
It is the stuff of campaigners’ dreams and Hollywood endings. One day you are fighting to right a great wrong but it seems no-one is listening....
Remember when budgets were pure political theatre, complete with rituals and props? One such tradition was giving the Chancellor something alcoholic...
Of all the astounding moments in Laura Kuenssberg’s interview there was one right at the end some viewers might have missed. You had to whack the...
If Wes Streeting did not already exist it would be tempting for those in charge of Labour’s general election advertising campaign to invent him. ...
In a political career stretching back two decades, Michael Gove has been called a lot of things, many requiring the use of asterisks when reporting. ...
Politics can be a cruel business. Granted, the treatment of opponents has moved on since Roman times, when a defeated foe could expect to have a...
From newbie MP to a Treasury minister in just four years. Even by the dizzyingly quick churn rate of the UK government, Laura Trott’s elevation to...
Are you familiar yet with Javier Milei, the new president-elect of Argentina? Since sweeping to victory at the weekend he has been making the news...
It has been a week since David Cameron pulled the opposite of a vanishing trick, and still the new Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton has Westminster...
“Here we go everybody, good luck!” They were words meant for those in the studio only, but thanks to the presenter’s microphone being left...
This column is indebted to the historian Henry Cobb for drawing attention to one detail in the State Opening of Parliament. When the King enters the...
Given the date you might have expected a mention in the Sunday politics shows of a certain plot timed to take effect on November 5. Not this year. ...
History sometimes happens in the most mundane of places. Take Dorland House, London W2 6BU, where the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearings are being held. ...
History sometimes happens in the most mundane of places. Take Dorland House, London W2 6BU, where the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearings are being held. ...
Broadcaster to government minister: “Do you use a default delete function on WhatsApp?” Admittedly, it doesn’t have quite the same poetry as...
As all good things must, the documentary series Union with David Olusoga came to an end this week. If you missed it get thee to BBC iPlayer pronto. ...
The Reckoning, the BBC1 drama about Jimmy Savile, had a launch like no other. When the project was announced three years ago there was uproar. Why...
The Reckoning, the BBC1 drama about Jimmy Savile, had a launch like no other. When the project was announced three years ago there was uproar. Why...
Last week it was Rishi Sunak who suffered a drenching. Yesterday it was Keir Starmer. For this year’s party conferences, BBC1’s Sunday with...
The defendant was not required to attend the hearing in the state Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan, but there is no show without Trump, right? There...
Remember Weebles, the egg-shaped toys that famously wobble but do not fall down? They first appeared in the 1970s and are still going strong today,...
“I have no idea why I didn’t want to do this sooner.” So said Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 News anchor, after his debut cha-cha on Strictly...
It has been a hectic week of kite flying by Rishi Sunak on subjects ranging from inheritance tax and green targets to pension rises and benefit cuts. ...
Liz Truss, remember her? Of course you do. Shortest-serving prime minister in British history. In office for just 49 days. Infamously trounced by a...
It hardly seems five minutes since MPs returned from their summer break and now they are off again, this time to prepare for party conference season. ...
Humza Yousaf is “a poor Nicola Sturgeon tribute act”. Keir Starmer’s Labour is “a 1990s tribute act”, or “a Blair tribute act”. You can...
Another scorching Sunday and on the politics programmes some were feeling the heat more than others. Anas Sarwar may have noticed a burning in his...