Jacob Rees-Mogg
Opiate of the masses
TV has become a branch of the pharmaceutical industry doling out heavy sedatives
Parliament is preparing to meet next week to vote on EU trade deal
The announcement may come on Thursday – regardless of whether a deal is concluded by that day
Government to table Brexit Bill next week
Legislation designed to neuter the Withdrawal Agreement was welcomed by Brexiteers
No Finance Bill bad news for Brexiteers
Without a Finance Bill, the UK has ever decreasing options to avoid implementing the EU Withdrawal Agreement
Brexit Endgame
If the Finance Bill doesn’t appear next week, Brexiteers can assume the Withdrawal Agreement is here to stay
Thursday morning blues
Anything more and they’d expect too much
Chucking out time
Why are Ministers with private offices happy to deprive backbench MPs of staff?
Why MPs can no longer vote by click
Voting through the lobbies is an inconvenience worth preserving
Master of judgement
Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers a man who knew how to handle people
Farewell Hybrid Parliament. Goodbye Scottish MPs?
MPs are to return to Westminster. But will Welsh, Scottish and Ulster MPs come?
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
