It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?

Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account

Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future

Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project

On the commodification of the nation state

Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy

A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey

Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation

The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England

Who won? Certainly not the country