Boris Johnson
Cavalier with the facts
PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”
Silence in court
Calls by Labour politicians for an inquiry into royal racism misjudge the popular mood
Bingeing on RishiVision
Money doesn’t spend itself, Chancellors spend money
Budget 2021: What did we get?
Rishi goes back to tax and spend
Back to the future
Chillaxed to the max with Davey C
Love, fame, power: the false allure of the celebrity politician
To truly achieve celebrity status and win a place in the nation’s affections you have to give up your political ambitions – just look at Ed Balls
The magician’s dismay
The showman spotted the rabbit hopping about backstage, but was forced to carry on with his trick
Henpecked Harry & Badgered Boris?
The Prince and the Prime Minister have more in common than we might think
Escape to Vaccinery
Where’s the reckless rogue Tory MPs elected leader? Who’s this square?
The PM’s plan for lifting lockdown
A leisurely unlocking to prevent a rise in infections, or something more political?
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
