Jeremy Hunt
Walking a tightrope
It is not easy for Jeremy Hunt to toe the government line without falling off
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Don’t chuck money at foreign companies
It is wrong to hand public money to overseas firms to expand their UK operations
Who will offer a vision for national renewal?
Britain needs major reform, not managerial tinkering
The Hunt boredget
Will it do more for the economy or insomnia?
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
On She/Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Yousaf resigns and Lavery is maligned in another weird week of Scullionbait
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
Gregory Snaith: Little Magazine Editor
Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset the applecart
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
The Golden Age of jockeys
Ryan Moore is most racing professionals’ idea of the best jockey in the world
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
The real St George’s Day
The week in fragile people and fragile porcelain
