Portcullis
We deep dive at dawn
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The incredible shrinking PM
A low blow from Starmer
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
Rishi does the maths
Sunak squirms under a grilling from Starmer on the NHS
Too sleepy to secede?
The Tory answer to the SNP is the nationalism of the land of Nod
Carry On Tories
Rishi Sunak could not escape Matt Hancock’s steamy grasp
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
Davros man
COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE!
Pure pantomime
Parliament is putting on quite a show this Christmas
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
