Rats in a Sack
13 May 2025
More trepidation at the Statesman as a new deputy rides into town
New editor Tom McTague has named his deputy – and the similarities are hard to miss
Read the full article13 May 2025
Desperate Kemi loyalists seek to save their leader
With Badenoch floundering in the polls, her supporters are looking for something – anything – to rescue her
Read the full article13 May 2025
Is No 10 about to put the kibosh on culture?
The government is rumoured to be about to ditch not just culture secretary Lisa Nandy but her department entirely
Read the full article13 May 2025
Keeping up with Liz Jones
Former colleagues of the Mail on Sunday diarist are gobsmacked at her latest outpouring, with eyebrow-raising tales of subterfuge and at-desk urination
Read the full article09 May 2025
Farage’s new army already going AWOL
Little more than a week since being elected, a number of Reform councillors face having to stand down
Read the full article08 May 2025
Badenoch’s booze reception lacks fizz for Tory MPs
The Conservative leader's attempts to rally round her twitchy parliamentary party fell flat
Read the full article07 May 2025
The Standard is backing Susan Hall again – and London must be baffled
The capital's newspaper is bigging up the woefully underqualified Conservative candidate against Sadiq Khan in the most recent mayoral contest
Read the full article07 May 2025
The India deal – another triumph for Liz Truss
A column in the Telegraph tries to give credit for a new trade deal to the former PM, while ignoring some other, rather large problems
Read the full article05 May 2025
Is it the Guardian In Name Only?
The editor-in-chief’s absence has done little to tackle the simmering resentments over the sale of the Observer
Read the full article05 May 2025
Stop working from home, says Farage… unless you work for Reform
While saying council workers must return to the office, the party is making no such demand of its new regional director
Read the full article02 May 2025
Will Reform regret selecting loose cannon Jenkyns?
The new mayor of Greater Lincolnshire was publicly contradicting party policy within minutes of being elected
Read the full article02 May 2025
Banks just misses out on job he didn’t want
The Brexiteer businessman came second in the race for West of England mayor – a role he derided as a ‘meaningless job’
Read the full article01 May 2025
Cash-strapped Standard loses another £20m
The no-longer-evening newspaper reported another whopping pre-tax loss in the year up to last September, new figures show
Read the full article30 April 2025
Daniel Hannan gets it spectacularly wrong again, part 472
The Tory peer and 'Brain of Brexit' has hit out at those who claim Canada's Conservatives threw away an election which they began with a 23-point lead
Read the full article29 April 2025
The Sun sends Cole to Washington
The paper's political editor has finally got the move to America he has publicly been angling for
Read the full article28 April 2025
Solidarity only goes so far for the Guardian
The paper is gearing up to compete ferociously with former Sunday stablemate the Observer under its new ownership
Read the full article28 April 2025
How can Starmer survive the Mail on Sunday’s stunning scoop?
While other titles were distracted by the pope's funeral, the MoS broke the news a woman the PM dated three decades ago had since voiced pro-trans views
Read the full article28 April 2025
Facing a battering, Tory strategy chief heads for the hills
The Conservative Party's director of strategy headed off on holiday as it faces losing up to 500 seats
Read the full article25 April 2025
The penny finally drops for Boris Johnson – Trump is no friend of Ukraine
After months of defending his hero, the former prime minister has finally realised the president has no interest in aiding the war-ravaged country
Read the full article24 April 2025
Lee Anderson accuses London mayor of drive-by splashing
The Reform MP pointed his finger at Sadiq Khan after his suit got soaked by a puddle
Read the full article24 April 2025
Not everyone’s welcoming Lord Gove of Torry
The new Conservative peer has revealed the name he will take in the upper house - but some natives of the Aberdeen suburb it honours are unhappy
Read the full article24 April 2025
Trump in the rough over late golf returns
The firm which owns the president's Scottish course has been issued with a warning it's at risk of being struck off after failing to file its finances
Read the full article23 April 2025
Does the Daily Express know what England is?
The paper gave its readers tips on how to celebrate England's patron saint's day. Unfortunately it struggled a bit with the nation's borders
Read the full article23 April 2025
Fancy a flutter on Liz Truss being Reform’s next leader?
The odds are shortening on the former PM succeeding Nigel Farage after reports she had been holding talks with the party
Read the full article22 April 2025
As sure as eggs is eggs, the right gets angry over Easter
Each year the right wing ties itself in knots about the supposed cancellation of Christianity from the Christian festival - whether it's true or not
Read the full article22 April 2025
Kemi’s incompetence no surprise to Spectator staff
The Conservative leader's hopeless Today interview was all too familiar to those who recall her brief spell at the right wing magazine
Read the full article18 April 2025
Exit door starts swinging at the New Statesman
The magazine's popular executive editor is departing as a new regime prepares to take charge
Read the full article17 April 2025
Are government ministers turning to AI?
Clive Brooke, a Labour peer, wrote to the government earlier this month to ask if AI was being used to reply to written parliamentary questions. The answer was somewhat unclear
Read the full article16 April 2025
Truss’s copying of Trump reaches a new low
Britain’s worst PM is launching a social network and embracing cryptocurrency and religion - just like America’s worst president
Read the full article15 April 2025
X marks the drop for Elon Musk’s British business
New figures filed at Companies House show a whopping fall in the turnover of the self-styled first buddy's social network X
Read the full article14 April 2025
Is Brexit botcher David Frost really Britain’s 13th most popular public figure?
No – he is almost certainly not, despite what YouGov says
Read the full article11 April 2025
It’s Farage versus Trump
The Reform leader finally catches up with what the rest of the world has known all along – that Trump’s tariffs are a complete disaster
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