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
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
