Sketch
Parliamentary sketches from our parliamentary sketch-writer
Visiting great uncle Don
Is uncle’s senility a very clever act?
Who do you think you are kidding?
All sides of parliament are still in the realm of comfortable fantasy
Twister!
It’s hard to praise Trump’s position while stating your own diametrically opposed view
How is she so bad at this?
Kemi Badenoch cannot seem to stop walking into her own traps
You wouldn’t steal an internet
If MPs just abolished copyright laws, we’d be a nation of billionaires
Just shout if you want growth
Over the sound of soulless machines, Reeves had to bellow her entire speech
The right manosphere for the job
Philp delivers every word like a punch
Agincourt in the act
The Tories can’t resist the culture war bait
The supercilious headmaster
And some improvement by the president of the Sixth Form Debating Society
A tale of two speeches
One sees the world as a negotiation, the other as a series of court cases
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The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone