Prime Minister’s Question Time
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Hoyle’s Law
Badenoch reached for the incendiary line at PMQs — and handed Starmer the unity he was missing.
Ice, cold in the North Atlantic
The Speaker explodes, Badenoch discovers self-determination and Trump can’t remember which island he wants.
Softball Wednesday
Labour MPs were not testing Keir Starmer, but nor was Kemi Badenoch
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Cry God for Rishi
Rishi Sunak only wishes he had the prospects of Henry V
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
The incredible shrinking PM
A low blow from Starmer
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness