‘Grim’ Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying triumph is a bleak day for parliament
The portents this morning were grim. The Grim Leadreaper was doing her HR manager of Hades act, buzzing around with…
Rayner’s PMQs performance will trouble Starmer
As you might have noticed from the crowds weeping in the streets and the appearance of sackcloth, ashes and rent,…
Starmer looked out of place in the mountains with Sky’s Beth Rigby
Sir Keir Starmer was doing an interview with Beth Rigby in the lush mountain landscape of Canada. Hardly a man…
Kemi was at her best skewering Labour on grooming gangs
Yvette Cooper had come to the House of Commons to shut, as loudly and with as much gusto as she…
Tim Farron, the last of the old-school liberals
Today the Assisted Suicide Bill returned to the House of Commons. Amid its many flaws and complications, perhaps most important…
The spending review was 45 minutes I will never get back
Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to…
Ed Miliband is an astonishing Commons performer
I’m not totally sure where they keep Ed Miliband in between his Commons appearances. Perhaps some sort of deep freeze…
No more Mr Nice Nige
Rachel Reeves was visiting a gardening club for the retired. ‘Do you come here every week?’ she simpered at some…
Leave our period dramas alone!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Jane Austen must begin with a mangled, platitudinous variation on…
It didn’t take Starmer long to morph into Brezhnev
It has taken Sir Keir Starmer just under 11 months to enter his Brezhnev era. Portly, autocratic and reliant on…
Make Bond great again
One of the great recurring James Bond tropes is to make it look as though 007 has actually been killed…
Tough love
Covid has changed the dating game
