Sketch
Shapps is shocked, shocked!
The Prime Minister’s defence calls in a specialist
Boris brings up the rear
The prime minister is consistent only in his untidiness and unpreparedness
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
No-demand TV
Have We Got Politicians for You
Sound and fury signifying nothing
The pomp of the Queen’s Speech failed to mask the flatness of it all
No honour among thieves
If Keir is trying to shame Boris by offering to resign, he’s going to be disappointed
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
Lord of the Flies (but not the zippers)
Tribal warfare suits the chieftain of Tory island
Cash in the Cabinet
Helpful tips from your favourite politicians on how to beat the cost of living crisis
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The problem with precarity
Professional insecurity is harming workers and institutions alike
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
