Freaky Friday
Tories and Labour become each other
Have cake. Eat cake. More cake. What cake?
Boris breaks his promises by announcing he has a plan
Boris – an optimist even in military defeat
Boris brooks no insult of our hardworking men and women in khaki and pinstripe
“Will this do?”
Johnson’s statement on Afghanistan was, as ever, a masterpiece of bare adequacy
The Diary of Dilyn the Dog
As told to Robert Hutton
Missing from the penalty spot
Boris Johnson fails the Mings test
Putting the Boot in…
David Cameron kept a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s peerless satire on his desk, but Boris Johnson’s eventful career is entirely in the Scoop mould
Charity remains at home
In cutting international aid, Tory MPs delude themselves into believing the prime minister
Politics is a game of two halves
The Euros – politics by other means
Is he bovvered?
Boris can do compassion. When he can be bothered.
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
