House of Commons
Constitutionally deformed
Robert Peston and Kishan Koria would make our democracy far more dysfunctional
Burying Caesar
The House of Commons must restore its legitimacy
Remembering Richard Shepherd
Barry Legg and Sir Bill Cash discuss the former Conservative MP
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
Recanting decanting
An expensive evacuation of the Palace of Westminster has now fallen out of favour
Outside his bailiwick
John Bercow’s podcast is me me me, with a side order of sycophancy
Dilyn the Dog plays charades
Bozzo is getting to know his MPs
More leaks, Mr Speaker
If we leaked the entire budget to the opposition, we might get better government
The perils of a speaker unchained
Bercow remains a grim warning about what a politician can still do in the chair, if he puts his mind to it
Do as Tories say, not as Tories do
Conservative politicians instruct us to wear masks — but vice-signal not doing so themselves
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
