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I long for a break from Keir Starmer’s bad gags

PMQs last week was embarrassing: not a single answer to a single question. The bar then was low – yet still today was, if not just as bad, still...

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The tragicomedy of Rachel Reeves talking about the Middle East

Rachel Reeves was in the House today, responding to the war in the Middle East. That as a statement alone has an air of innate tragicomic potential to...

previous day 8

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Madeline Grant

Keir Starmer’s gentlest grilling yet

‘I don’t want to raise levels of public anxiety.’ Believe it or not, these words came out of the mouth of Sir Keir Starmer. If they were true,...

monday 6

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Decriminalising late abortions isn’t progressive

Last week, the body of an 18-day old baby girl was found in Westminster, in desperately sad circumstances. The baby’s mother has since been charged...

20.03.2026 10

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PMQs was ruined by Starmer’s verbal epilepsy

When a fully greased Sir Keir Starmer is finally bundled, squealing, out of Downing Street, one wonders what he might turn his hand to by way of work...

18.03.2026 10

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Keir Starmer’s Global Statesman act isn’t fooling anyone

Downing Street’s briefing room increasingly looks like a municipal crematorium. It is a depressing feast of cheap teak and black edges. Other...

16.03.2026 9

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Politics / David Lammy’s depraved new world

Beamish, the living history museum in County Durham, invites visitors to ‘step into the past’. It shows how people lived in the early 20th century...

12.03.2026 10

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Keir Starmer has no interest in answering Kemi Badenoch’s questions

In the last 48 hours the government of Sir Keir Starmer has ended a link between the House of Lords and the Anglo-Saxon Witan by booting out the...

11.03.2026 10

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Male vanity / The homoeroticism of looksmaxxing

“Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?” So asks Derek Zoolander,...

08.03.2026 10

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Madeline Grant

Male vanity / The homoeroticism of looksmaxxing

‘Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?’ So asks Derek Zoolander,...

06.03.2026 20

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Madeline Grant

Male vanity / The homoeroticism of looksmaxxing

‘Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?’ So asks Derek Zoolander,...

05.03.2026 10

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Madeline Grant

Why is Keir Starmer pretending that he’s a serious statesman?

‘I’d like to remind members of the need for good temper and moderation in the language they use in this chamber.’ Sir Lindsay Hoyle began PMQs...

04.03.2026 10

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Misplaced confidence is Rachel Reeves’s calling card

‘Mr Speaker, this government has the right economic plan for this country.’ It’s never a good sign for a sombre economic statement when your...

03.03.2026 10

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Hannah Spencer has mastered tweeslop

Politics students of the future – if there are any who can see the full length of study without recourse to industrial amounts of anti-depressants...

27.02.2026 10

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Keir Starmer needs a reality check

In the film Goodbye Lenin, a German family has to convince a fussy, old woman who is also a committed socialist that everything going on outside her...

25.02.2026 10

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Madeline Grant

The stakeholder class needs blowing up

In February 1974, a frustrated Ted Heath, unable to achieve anything in government against constant opposition by the mighty trade unions, called an...

15.02.2026 50

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Bonfire of the lanyards / The stakeholder class needs blowing up

12.02.2026 3

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Keir Starmer’s PMQ cluckings convinced no one

11.02.2026 9

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Starmer’s last stand reeks of desperation

10.02.2026 20

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Labour’s invertebrates are deserting Keir Starmer

04.02.2026 8

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Does Keir Starmer know how preposterous he sounds?

03.02.2026 40

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Deputy PMQs made Starmer vs Badenoch look like Gladstone vs Disraeli

28.01.2026 10

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Labour pains / There’s no great mystery to the Andy Burnham affair

26.01.2026 10

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Sketch / Keir Starmer’s PMQs performance was his most shameless yet

21.01.2026 6

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Sketch / Starmer’s supine ministers can’t defend approving China’s embassy

20.01.2026 7

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Bobby J: Reform’s most coveted debutante

16.01.2026 10

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What does Jenrick’s defection mean for the right?

15.01.2026 9

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Final act / The tragedy of Keir Starmer

15.01.2026 20

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Starmer’s ‘jokes’ make him sound like a creepy uncle

14.01.2026 10

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Starmer brings the spirit of Dry January to PMQs

07.01.2026 10

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The Maccabi mess has exposed Britain’s babbling bobbies

07.01.2026 20

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Foreign policy / The fall of Venice carries a warning for Starmer's Chagos deal

05.01.2026 10

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An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer

17.12.2025 9

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Unhappy anniversary / Do we really need a 'new spin' on Jane Austen?

17.12.2025 10

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Unhappy anniversary / Do we really need a 'new spin' on Jane Austen?

17.12.2025 4

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Politics / There are bin liners with more empathy than Keir Starmer

16.12.2025 9

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There are bin liners with more empathy than Keir Starmer

15.12.2025 8

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Keir Starmer is not waving but drowning at PMQs

10.12.2025 40

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Keir Starmer goes walkies to McLaren

08.12.2025 6

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There is one impressive thing about Keir Starmer’s government

04.12.2025 5

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It's a bit rich for Starmer to say the Tories should be ashamed

03.12.2025 5

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David Lammy’s jury reforms aren’t bold – they’re brazen

03.12.2025 7

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Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

01.12.2025 8

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David Lammy wouldn’t even show up to defend abolishing juries

28.11.2025 6

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Marriage is the real rebellion

27.11.2025 10

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Rachel Reeves is a true disaster artist

26.11.2025 8

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The monumental self-delusion of Rachel Reeves

21.11.2025 10

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Creasy’s opposition is the best advert for Mahmood’s migrant crackdown

21.11.2025 8

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Even Labour MPs are tiring of Starmer

20.11.2025 3

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Sydney Sweeney, the Hollywood radical

14.11.2025 10

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