PMQs
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Et tu, er, Philip?
Anti-BoJo jibes enliven a dull PMQs
I, Sunak
An uninspired outing on all sides
Charge of the Lightweight Brigade
Into the valley of death rode the 358
Boris-go! Boris-go! Boris-go!
Se vuol ballare, signor contino, il chitarrino le suonerò
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
Lord of the Flies (but not the zippers)
Tribal warfare suits the chieftain of Tory island
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
