Parliament
Johnson’s last stand?
We could witness the twilight of Boris Johnson’s political career today
The ways of Whigs
What unites the parliaments of the 18th and 21st centuries?
Dismal plate of the nation
Lisa Hilton finds a disturbing metaphor in the unconvincing dining room of the House of Lords
Bananas republic
Helping the dear leader pay the bills was all part of the service in the Glorious People’s Republic of Boris
The incredible shrinking PM
A low blow from Starmer
Affairs of Church and state
Parliament debates marriage, theology and Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
Too sleepy to secede?
The Tory answer to the SNP is the nationalism of the land of Nod
Dead policy sketch
Reports of Channel 4’s privatisation have been greatly exaggerated
Welfare statesmen
Struggling ex–Prime Ministers have been spotted queueing outside of Parliament
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
