Boris Johnson
What is it with populists and comical haircuts?
Crazy hair can be as much of an asset to a firebrand politician as crazy rhetoric
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
The Parallax Clueless
In which Nadine Dorries solves an international conspiracy and drinks a LOT of tea
Keeping the beaches open
What did we learn about Boris Johnson’s COVID response from Didactic Dom?
The fog of bores
Was Martin Reynolds’ memory a casualty of the pandemic?
The Tories deserve to be hated
If not for the reasons many of their critics hate them
Clinton the populist
Did Bill walk so that Boris and Trump could run?
Awe-inspiring shamelessness
Michael Gove fails the test
A very naughty boy
We have to stop indulging Boris
Et tu, er, Philip?
Anti-BoJo jibes enliven a dull PMQs
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
