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 roof is falling in
Schools are not the only thing in danger of collapsing
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
