Portcullis

Testing times in the race of life

The brightest and the best and the Matt and the Dido

Is Boris pulling his leadership contest grift again?

Classics are classic for a reason

Knights to remember

This must not be read within 2 metres of another sketch, unless you are in a bubble with John Crace

Whole lotta Lockdown

With friends like Tory backbenchers, who needs Cabinet colleagues?

All of this has happened before

Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go

But who was behind the iceberg?

Jeremy Corbyn sails into deep water with the EHRC

The Nine Billion Names of Boris

Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er

Should all England be a Greater Manchester?

Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.

You’ll take it and like it

Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris

You’ll get tired of the Not Talking

What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?