Boris Johnson
Liar! Liar! House on fire?
Never mind whether PMQs matter – does Parliament currently matter?
Ripping up the Withdrawal Agreement?
Brexiteers aren’t all convinced the legislation will achieve what’s promised
Cabinet Wars – Episode I
How do the cabinet and shadow cabinet stack up on Twitter?
PMQs: Bullying Boris silences his own benches
Bluster and evasion come too easily to the prime minister
Against Protocol
Did Boris Johnson just announce he’s given up on Brexit negotiations?
A conservative chairman won’t save the BBC
No matter who takes over the BBC, the corporation is irrevocably broken
Politicians versus mandarins
Spats between governments and civil servants are inevitable when administrations have a radical agenda
The Whitehall rot sets in
This government caused the slump, but unlike Mrs Thatcher it has no fable for why the country suffered
Had cake, ate cake
Why Boris won’t allow other people to enjoy the things he has
Giving up control
How the rules on Northern Ireland could keep the whole UK locked in EU law
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
