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There are two good rules-of-thumb when you’re defending liberal democracy against populists. The first is to stand by your principles. And the...
It was a small error in an otherwise excellent report, but that error mutated into a monstrous little gremlin and ate its authors alive. They put...
It’s a hollow laugh. Each time he does it, it sounds emptier than it was before. Rishi Sunak’s snigger tells you everything you need to know about...
He’s done it again. It’s quite spectacular – far beyond the realms of human expectation. The things that Rishi Sunak is doing are so stupid they...
Cruelty, followed by incompetence, culminating in disaster. That is the Home Office methodology. And the bleak undeniable reality of it was published...
A staggering degree of ineptitude this week, even by Rishi Sunak’s standards. He is operating with a degree of basic incompetence which we had...
Budgets are never the most exciting of parliamentary events, but today took the tedium to previously unimaginable new levels. The whole thing was...
There’s something obviously broken in the Conservative response to Lee Anderson. At first it seems almost comedic. But then, as you peel away the...
You couldn’t ask for better symbolism if you tried. Events in the Middle East are of the utmost seriousness. But in Westminster, MPs are playing an...
Grim week for the Labour Party, and a surprising one too. It’s proved vulnerable at its strongest point. Since Keir Starmer took hold of the party,...
It’s a stump. A pointless, redundant stump, sitting between London and the Midlands. A relic of a lost era in which we still dreamed that we might...
You have to keep on reminding yourself of the past. You have to cling to it, so you know you’re not going mad. You have to remember the lies and the...
For once in his life, Simon Clarke isn’t wrong. The former chief secretary to the Treasury published a piece in The Daily Telegraph yesterday which...
It was the opening skirmish in the Lords battle over the Rwanda bill. Last night, peers defeated the Government by 214 to 171 over a motion about...
And just like that, Lee Anderson was gone. Early yesterday evening, the vice-chair of the Conservative Party quit over an amendment to the Rwanda...
In they come at last. The amendments from Tory hardliners to the Rwanda bill were published on Tuesday night. They are gibberish piled upon nonsense,...
Nigel Farage is the ghost at the feast. He’s everywhere and nowhere: an absence that defines the world around it. You could feel that absence up on...
Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...
Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...
First Christmas, then pain. That’s the calendar sequence facing Rishi Sunak. He’ll get a decent little break now that parliament is in recess for...
Rishi Sunak keeps smiling. Every day, no matter the context, he plasters that smile on his face like a mask. Nothing can phase him. His MPs rebel, his...
He arrived under the cloak of darkness, three hours before his testimony to the Covid inquiry. That’s obviously not a normal thing for Boris Johnson...
We’re stuck in a debate with no purchase in reality. Since the latest immigration figures came out last week, the Conservative party has been...
Just like that, it came into view. Jeremy Hunt ended his Autumn Statement this afternoon with a promise on national insurance cuts. And by the time he...
Just like that, it came into view. Jeremy Hunt ended his Autumn Statement this afternoon with a promise on National Insurance cuts. And by the time he...
They laid it out, word by word, sentence by sentence. And by the end, Suella Braverman’s reputation lay tattered in the mud. Today’s Supreme Court...
There’s an awful lot of noise out there today. Big swinging changes in the Cabinet, the complete reversal of Rishi Sunak’s insistence that he was...
You can feel it building towards a cataclysm. And more pernicious than that, it feels as if certain people are willing it towards a cataclysm....
Rishi Sunak’s love-in with Elon Musk might be the most embarrassing political event I’ve ever witnessed. It’s hard to watch in its entirety. The...
Dominic Cummings was the headline act. People know who he is and they know what he does: angry sweary self-importance combined with a messianic...
The word was spoken sometime on Saturday afternoon, as demonstrators marched through London to protest Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. A separate Hizb...
The purpose of terrorism is fear. But the purpose of what is happening now in the Middle East is something else. A terrible machine has been...
Sometimes the horror overtakes you. You can feel it gathering up inside you, beneath the skeleton. This week it felt too large to bear, as if the...
Rishi Sunak just banned smoking. He didn’t say that and it will not initially feel like it, but it’s what he has done. During his conference...
The Conservative Party conference is a circus of idiocy, conspiracy theory, vacuity and mendacity. It’s like watching the death of a living brain....
Every day, GB News proves itself to be a poison in our political life. And every day, respectable politicians get up, put on a suit, and appear on it,...
If you squint, and turn your head just right, you can see the future of Europe. It’s a Europe that is more powerful by virtue of offering nation...
Keir Starmer has unveiled a workable asylum policy. You can tell, because all the people who failed in this area of policy are intent on attacking it....
Ever since Theresa May left office, she has been telling a story about a prime minister who never existed. She was a great prime minister. She fought...
If the story is true, it marks a moment of supreme moral and strategic importance. According to a new biography of Elon Musk, as reported on CNN, the...