Mike Johnson
Calm waters
Mike Johnson’s spinelessness was as surreal as it was disingenuous
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The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
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Contra Kemi
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Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
A bore and a balm
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New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Talent and temptation
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