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Madeline Grant

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An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer

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

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

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

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There are bin liners with more empathy than Keir Starmer

15.12.2025 2

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Keir Starmer is not waving but drowning at PMQs

10.12.2025 30

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Keir Starmer goes walkies to McLaren

Keir Starmer goes walkies to McLaren
08.12.2025 3

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There is one impressive thing about Keir Starmer’s government

There is one impressive thing about Keir Starmer’s government
04.12.2025 2

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

03.12.2025 3

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

David Lammy’s jury reforms aren’t bold – they’re brazen
03.12.2025 9

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Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves
01.12.2025 4

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

David Lammy wouldn’t even show up to defend abolishing juries
28.11.2025 10

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Marriage is the real rebellion

Marriage is the real rebellion
27.11.2025 9

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Rachel Reeves is a true disaster artist

26.11.2025 4

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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 7

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Even Labour MPs are tiring of Starmer

20.11.2025 3

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Sydney Sweeney, the Hollywood radical

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Star turn / Sydney Sweeney, the Hollywood radical

13.11.2025 4

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PMQs / Keir Starmer can’t even commit governmental suicide

12.11.2025 5

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David Lammy has a future in panto

12.11.2025 4

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The BBC’s MP defenders have all lost their minds

12.11.2025 6

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Sketch / Calamity Lammy had no answers on the wandering Algerian

05.11.2025 5

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Jeffrey Epstein may yet wreak more havoc on Keir Starmer

03.11.2025 2

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The assisted suicide bill’s backers are abysmal 

31.10.2025 10

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Property rights / Landlords need protecting too

31.10.2025 30

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Keir Starmer has developed an unhealthy obsession with Reform

29.10.2025 4

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Hadush Kebatu / Calamity Lammy had no answers on the migrant sex offender debacle

27.10.2025 6

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Ellie Reeves is even more incompetent than her sister Rachel

23.10.2025 10

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Twilight zone / How America’s Wasps lost their sting

23.10.2025 7

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Big Ange just can’t say sorry

22.10.2025 2

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Keir Starmer is the king of porkies

15.10.2025 4

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Are the grown-ups really back in charge?

10.10.2025 6

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Kemi’s speech was good. But is anyone listening?

08.10.2025 7

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Poor Lammy and Hermer got pulped by Robert Jenrick

07.10.2025 4

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Sketch / Mel Stride bewilders me

06.10.2025 10

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Kemi’s conference welcome speech was strange and funereal

05.10.2025 7

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Labour conference / Starmer’s speech was nothing but stale, reheated guff

30.09.2025 3

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Labour conference is a triumph of anti-talent

29.09.2025 4

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Keir’s cabinet of rotters are an ever-giving comedy gift

28.09.2025 3

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ID cards are the perfect policy for Starmer

26.09.2025 3

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Ed Davey is the perfect Lib Dem leader

23.09.2025 9

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Reform / Has Farage managed to put Boris to bed?

22.09.2025 3

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This peer’s Assisted Suicide speech was truly bonkers

19.09.2025 8

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Arts feature / Is Grey Gardens the greatest documentary ever made?

19.09.2025 10

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State visit / Donald Trump and Keir Starmer make a very strange pair

18.09.2025 10

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Is Grey Gardens the greatest documentary ever made?

18.09.2025 10

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Sketch / Only the Bottom Crawlers will defend Mandelson now

16.09.2025 9

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Danny Kruger is Reform’s best scalp yet

15.09.2025 5

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Theresa May’s attack on the Assisted Suicide Bill was phenomenal

12.09.2025 4

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