Boris Johnson
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
Are we still talking to the EU?
Government spin is mixing the Brexit divorce agreement with the trade deal
No deal Brexit? What about the deal that is already signed?
The government’s commitment to the Withdrawal Agreement compromises a clean break Brexit
Nothing has changed
Read the small print on Boris’s “no deal” speech and you’ll realise we’ve been here before
The Ides of Boris
The instruments of darkness tell us truths
A circuit break to the consensus
Does Starmer attacking government policy make it harder or easier for Tory rebels?
Britain’s Brexit deadline abandoned
Both sides no longer recognise 15 October as the last day by which a deal can be struck
Boris fights a strawman
BREAKING: strawman wins
Distinctly average magic
They’d have clapped, it would have been the best clapping
Did Boris deliver?
The Prime Minister would prefer to overpromise than exceed expectations
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
Consider the way of the tiger
We should learn lessons from Japan as we start to face our own demographic crunch
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
