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Starmer has all the pomp of Caesar but with the likability of Bernard Manning ... and worse jokes
Labour leader appears to have made itemised spreadsheets of all his chickens a full calendar year before they might be expected to hatch
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We no longer want to confront the reality of death
Only a minority even want a funeral. But we may come to regret leaving behind the old ways of grieving
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British liberals are sheltered from the devastating impact of mass migration
First-past-the-post and progressive dogma have contained justified public anger about high numbers. It cannot last
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Common sense? Esther McVey’s return was more like panto
Retro is cool, the past is the present, but can people feel nostalgia for things they never actually missed?
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Sedwill opts for the time-honoured strategy of dunking on Hancock
Triviality of proceedings shows Matthew Hopkins could be called as an expert witness in due course
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Why it’s time to switch off James O’Brien, the Remainiac foghorn
The LBC host has written a wild polemic about the forces ‘who broke Britain’, but his thesis and examples are weak, and his prose childish
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Never mind the karaoke, the Covid Inquiry song and dance will go on for years
The inquiry has become backside-covering on a pantomime level
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Only hatred of Israel unites the United Nations
The international talking-shop is dominated by dictatorships interested in anything but their own people’s welfare
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Never mind Israel – low-wattage Starmer is more worried about the travails of Emily and David
Labour leader’s crib sheet fails him as frontbenchers break ranks to voice dissent on Gaza and call for ceasefire
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Evil is real, and the West is in peril for forgetting that
The refusal of so many to see Hamas’s wickedness for what it is speaks to a dangerous moral relativism
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If Farage returns, the Tories now face a truly existential threat
Based on these by-election results, a 1997-style rout should be the least of their worries
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These results are simply too awful for Sunak to spin
Tory MPs are starting to sound a bit like 2019-era Corbyn fans, insisting that, despite evidence to the contrary, their ideas remain popular
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Penny Mordaunt has the last laugh against Labour joke-killer Lucy Powell
Shadow Commons leader's one-liners fall flat as she makes lame allusion to her opponent's Tory conference speech
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PMQs can veer from Lear to Widow Twanky but it remains important global debate centre
Whiplash tonal shifts abound as Israel-Hamas war rubs shoulders with local issues and monkey impressions
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The great lockdown scandal has only just begun
Nobody bothered to model the harms it caused, and almost nobody has shown humility about the mistakes
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We can’t even smoke to soothe the pain of Wes Streeting’s cure for the NHS
Sidelined shadow health secretary’s magic medicine to treat health service of its ills sounds more like a grim final prescription
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