Can’t read my poker face
As party conference opens, Sunak looks like a man waiting for his bluff to be called
Wall St wolves
On money, morality and motive in three films
A bonfire of the straw men
Rishi Sunak declares war on policies that never existed
Sic transit gloria mundi
A barebones parliament stumbles along as a country crumbles
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
No gods, no Starmers
Angela Rayner seizes the floor of the Trade Unions Congress to announce the inevitable victory of the proletariat
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spad
Famed spy-hunter Oliver Dowden is on the case of a traitor at the Circus (or parliament, as its sometimes know)
Lovable losers
Can you let the country down and still be adored? Rishi hopes so
Zombie Parliament
Night of the living dead legislators
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
