Matt Hancock, could you honestly think of no one better to run test and trace?

With the system in chaos, Dido Harding says the increased demand could not have been predicted. Yes, really, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Tutting at the decor while Britain burns: all hail the Cameron chumocracy!

His memoirs in the bag, the artisan politician has emerged to weigh in on Brexit, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Tories' biggest trick? Convincing the world they have a cunning plan

As the cock-ups continue to pile up, some people bizarrely still seem to think it’s all part of an ingenious strategy, says Guardian columnist...

Who says Britain can't negotiate a Brexit deal? We've got Frosty the No Man

Setting ourselves up as the country you really can’t trust seems an eccentric way of dealmaking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This is mission control to Dominic Cummings: you have a problem

Talking about a ‘Nasa-style’ nerve centre is not a good idea when your mistakes can be seen from space, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Farage, Ferrari and a Bafta Rising Bile award: Welcome to Fox News UK!

With an ultra-rightwing news network in the pipeline, here’s a schedule guaranteed to give the Beeb a run for its money. By Guardian columnist...

Boris Johnson has given us a new mantra: Leave home. Forget the NHS. Save Pret

The government is urging us back to the office. Given the commute delays, they’ll soon want us to sleep there too, says Guardian columnist Marina...

For once, the Trumps are only the Republicans' second most dysfunctional family

Don Jr has been lecturing the RNC about Americans’ desire for ‘a perfect family’. Just don’t look at his own – or the Conways, says Guardian...

Yurt alert: how the holiday PM dodged the great British exams meltdown

You’ll have been aware for some time that Boris Johnson is on holiday, but from what? says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Welcome to Gavin Williamson's disasterclass – where incompetence is core curriculum

The education secretary’s handling of the A-levels results has all the hallmarks of Johnsonian government. He’ll probably get promoted, says...

Ahoy! Distress voyeur Farage is sea-perving – while terrified Johnson tacks towards him

Britain’s most unflushable war buff has taken to the beaches on a one-man migrant mission to drag No 10 further right, says Guardian columnist...

Get set for the next round of Britain's Brexit brinkmanship

After four years of agonising ineptitude, we know how it goes: we give up the brink, and hand it over to the other side, says Guardian columnist...

The Russia report had one big revelation: how little Britain really wants to know

Historically, the British state has always had more whitewash than the deepest whitewash-mining concession in the Urals, says Guardian columnist...

'Over by Christmas': now where have we heard Johnson's new slogan before?

Much like the prime minister’s crass pre-cooked jokes at PMQs, this upbeat line feels prematurely delivered, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Johnson has seen the light on 'face coverings'. Just not on toxic mask-ulinity

From gunslinging Gove to cock-of-the-spads Cummings – there’s no covering up the cost of this performative machismo, says Guardian columnist...

Chris Grayling's track record? There is no track: just a stretch of scorched earth

His career has been a series of breathtaking failures. Yet he’s just been made chair of the intelligence committee, says Guardian columnist Marina...

Welcome to Johnson’s alternative reality – where care home workers get the blame

The prime minister oversaw the discharge of 25,000 people into care homes without coronavirus testing. But not by his account, says Guardian columnist...

Perhaps Ghislaine Maxwell can fill in some blanks for Epstein's ‘bewildered’ friends

It’s strange that Prince Andrew never felt bewildered that his middle-aged friend was always surrounded by teenage girls, says Guardian columnist...

Stand aside, everyone: the Conservative cowboy builders are back on the job

The party that bodged everything now wants to tell us how it will fix things, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Richard Desmond is an endlessly mutating affliction. We must be on the fifth spike of him

It’s such a tonic to see the porn publisher back in the headlines after Robert Jenrick intervened to approve his £1bn development, says Guardian...

This is Boris Johnson's midlife crisis. The rest of us just have to live in it

A £900k plane respray, a dirt bike and two new royal yachts. A Celtic knot tattoo on the prime ministerial arm cannot be far off , says Guardian...

Marcus Rashford is showing our failing politicians how to do their jobs

People usually ask how many nurses you could exchange for one footballer. But one Rashford is worth a hundred ministers, says Guardian columnist...

Of course it's safe to ease lockdown – Matt Hancock is just fixing our alert system

Right now, Britain is about as biosecure as the health secretary is convincing. But some people really want an Ikea side table, says Guardian...

The numbers are in, and Johnson's government really is world-beating

It’s not just Cummings. They’re determined to just style out this whole ‘60,000 dead’ thing, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The truth about why Cummings hasn't gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him

The prime ministers’ decision is not borne of loyalty to his adviser – he just can’t get rid of his ideas man, says Guardian columnist Marina...

Without his frontbench cheerleaders, Johnson has nowhere to hide

The PM’s struggles to deal with Keir Starmer are making senior Tories desperate to get all MPs back into parliament pronto, says Guardian columnist...

Lessons on civic duty from Boris Johnson? No thank you

The prime minister is handling coronavirus so badly now, he makes even his most unpopular predecessors look public-spirited, says Guardian columnist...

Johnson's back, and this time his message is: all aboard for the sunlit downlands

The UK is on course to have the continent’s worst death toll – but don’t expect this prime minister to be a gloomster, says Guardian columnist...

Boris Johnson is tough on crime. Except when coronavirus wants to mug Britain

The PM is back – but neither he nor his Good News Bears cabinet can explain why they just watched the virus head for us, says Guardian columnist...

Donald Trump's prescription for coronavirus: quite literally toxic

The president’s advice involves ingesting bleach, which for some of us is beginning to seem like the only rational response, says Guardian columnist...

Richard Branson's bailout plea proves there's no one more shameless

Eyeing up the public purse from distant shores, Britain’s Best-Loved Businessman™ is truly one of the global super-elite, says Guardian columnist...

Hancock's channelling James Blunt, Raab looks terrified. But at least we're not the US

He may not be able to deliver enough PPE (or enough ‘care’ badges), but our health secretary sure can deliver a sultry presser, says the Guardian...

Eamonn Holmes under the hammer as daytime TV's fiercest sleuth goes rogue

Viewers who thought they heard the ITV idol link coronavirus to 5G masts can breathe easy: it was they who got it wrong, writes Guardian columnist...

With 1,000 deaths a day, our leaders should be facing far tougher questions

Dominic Raab should be addressing kit shortages for NHS staff, not his ‘letters of last resort’, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The horror of coronavirus is all too real. Don't turn it into an imaginary war

Politicians may turn to platitudes about heroes or battlers or victories, but they can’t disguise Britain’s grim current reality, says Guardian...

It's only a matter of time before Raheem Sterling gets it in the neck for coronavirus

In this week’s shifting blame game, Matt Hancock has kicked Premier League footballers into touch, says Marina Hyde

First the corona prince, now Johnson. Who are their designated survivors?

The trajectory is darkening, with Britain now a significant step nearer to being led by Dominic Raab, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Johnson 'fight them on the beaches' moment: true grit, or more shifting sands?

Let’s put this address into perspective, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

When Johnson says we'll turn the Covid-19 tide in 12 weeks, it's just another line for the side of a bus

It’s somewhat unsettling to see the prime minister repurpose his Brexit media strategy for a deadly contagion

Yes, it’s grim. And the British way with contagion has barely changed since 1665

From ye olde panicke buying to quack cures, conspiracy theories and imbeciles with public platforms, the plague had it all, says Guardian columnist...

Boris Johnson must be hating being PM – and these days that counts as good news

Have you seen his inbox? It’s all pandemic and Brexit blowback. Don’t tell me he doesn’t want his old life back, says Guardian columnist Marina...

Perma-smirking Priti Patel brings the hostile environment in-house

The home secretary has faced her trickiest week since her ‘holiday’ in Israel, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Dominic Cummings has started to believe he’s cool. What can you say but, ‘Ooooh’?

He likes to play badass, but if he’s so ruthless why does the cabinet still contain such mediocrities, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

That was Brexit: the mad energy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but lasting three and a half years

It unearthed some of the worst people in the country – on both sides. And the worst of all were the politicians, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Bezos learns the harsh lesson of texting a crown prince fond of crucifixions

Perhaps the Amazon boss, who was supposedly hacked by Mohammed bin Salman, will be more careful in future, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Don’t panic, humanity: selfless billionaires will save us all

Back to politics as usual. Or as it’s also known, total farce

As Westminster creaks into life again, we have an absent Johnson and an all-too-present Cummings, and as for Labour ... , says Guardian columnist...