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In the giddy rush to announce yet another ‘New Chapter’ in British politics – whose chapters these days seem to be about as lengthy and serious...
This parliament still has, potentially, three whole years to run, and yet it already feels zombified. Each week it goes through the motions, the same...
The House of Commons these days is hardly an inspiring place. There can be little denying that it is a shadow of the debating arena it was in the...
After months of back and forth, today the government finally released the latest tranche of the Mandy documents, which have become their own spin-off...
Peter Murrell is a strangely shiny man. He has the air of an undertaker who’s been siphoning off the corpse lacquer to use on his own face. The...
Today, in what will doubtless be just the first of many irritations inflicted on the unfortunate people of Makerfield, Labour launched their...
Has Sir Keir Starmer already checked out? There was a strange atmosphere in the House of Commons today. A sort of calm in the eye of the storm...
The Great North summit sounds like it should have been a peace conference attended by Peter the Great. Instead, it is actually a talking shop attended...
‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that Two Fat Ladies...
‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that Two Fat Ladies...
‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that Two Fat Ladies...
‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that Two Fat Ladies...
One of the traditions of the state opening of Parliament is that the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster for evidence...
I wish I’d invested in podiums back in the day. They have become a fixture of British politics of late, a symbol of the chaos and incompetence that...
In fairness to Keir Starmer, it took some nerve to turn up and tell deflated Labour candidates what had gone wrong at the local elections when even...
Oh dear, it’s all looking a bit glum for Zack Polanski. A string of headlines about both him and his party has been less than flattering. It’s...
The House of Lords is often described as ‘the best private members’ club in London’. Certainly, it has an appearance more impressive than...
There was a veritable ‘last day of school’ vibe in parliament as it was prorogued in anticipation of the King’s Speech in May. Though, to be...
The slow political death of Sir Keir Starmer continued again today. Westminster must increasingly resemble a torture chamber for the Prime Minister....
Sir Keir Starmer is now approaching a whole week with his head in the sand. One can imagine the plaintive ‘meep, meep’ noise echoing from the...
Ding ding! Round two – or is it round 22? – of the Mandelson saga was underway in the Foreign Affairs Committee. Sir Olly Robbins was going to...
You can always tell it’s going to be a good day in the Commons when the government spin operation happens before a Prime Ministerial statement....
Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living under his government induces...
‘Samantha Niblett’s Summer of Sex’ sounds like something that the police would have shut down during the grubbiest era of Soho peep shows. Not...
There’s an entire glorious genre of photos that we might tentatively entitle: ‘Keir Starmer standing in front of people who visibly loathe him.’...
British history is littered with elections and Elections. The first type, common or garden elections, are fought with prosaic issues at their core....
British history is littered with elections and Elections. The first type, common or garden elections, are fought with prosaic issues at their core....
PMQs last week was embarrassing: not a single answer to a single question. The bar then was low – yet still today was, if not just as bad, still...
Rachel Reeves was in the House today, responding to the war in the Middle East. That as a statement alone has an air of innate tragicomic potential to...
‘I don’t want to raise levels of public anxiety.’ Believe it or not, these words came out of the mouth of Sir Keir Starmer. If they were true,...
Last week, the body of an 18-day old baby girl was found in Westminster, in desperately sad circumstances. The baby’s mother has since been charged...
When a fully greased Sir Keir Starmer is finally bundled, squealing, out of Downing Street, one wonders what he might turn his hand to by way of work...
Downing Street’s briefing room increasingly looks like a municipal crematorium. It is a depressing feast of cheap teak and black edges. Other...
Beamish, the living history museum in County Durham, invites visitors to ‘step into the past’. It shows how people lived in the early 20th century...
In the last 48 hours the government of Sir Keir Starmer has ended a link between the House of Lords and the Anglo-Saxon Witan by booting out the...
“Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?” So asks Derek Zoolander,...
‘Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?’ So asks Derek Zoolander,...
‘Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?’ So asks Derek Zoolander,...
‘I’d like to remind members of the need for good temper and moderation in the language they use in this chamber.’ Sir Lindsay Hoyle began PMQs...
‘Mr Speaker, this government has the right economic plan for this country.’ It’s never a good sign for a sombre economic statement when your...
Politics students of the future – if there are any who can see the full length of study without recourse to industrial amounts of anti-depressants...
In the film Goodbye Lenin, a German family has to convince a fussy, old woman who is also a committed socialist that everything going on outside her...
In February 1974, a frustrated Ted Heath, unable to achieve anything in government against constant opposition by the mighty trade unions, called an...
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