Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton is The Critic's parliamentary sketchwriter, and the author of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter, Romps, Tots & Boffins, and, Would They Lie To You? He tweets at @RobDotHutton

There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?

Columns

Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?

Columns

Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.

Artillery Row

Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished

Columns

Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.

Columns

Farage: I’m not worried

Columns

Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead

Sketches

Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm

Sketches

Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month

On Cinema

In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech

Columns