Issue: June 2026

If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes

Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all

The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future

David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation

First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence

Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself

There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street

Farage: I’m not worried