Jeremy Hunt’s sober Budget briefing
How times change: seven months ago we were eagerly awaiting the Tiggerish Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal event, replete…
Now it’s Theresa’s turn to write her book
‘Former Prime Ministers’ remarked William Gladstone ‘are like untethered rafts drifting around harbours – a menace to shipping.’ And as…
Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Following the farce of last night’s 14-minute episode of Match of the Day,…
Will the BBC chairman go after Lineker row?
Day five and the Gary Lineker row shows no sign of abating any time soon. The BBC has gone into…
Match of the Day viewing figures rise without Gary Lineker
Oh dear. This wasn’t how it was meant to go. After Gary Lineker was forced to ‘step back’ from presenting…
The BBC’s nightmare hat-trick of blunders
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC press office has had a nightmare 24 hours, with not one but three…
Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day
Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot…
Gary Lineker doubles down on his Tory attacks
No red card for Gary Lineker, it seems. The Sun reports this afternoon that the outspoken TV presenter is staying…
Hancock wanted to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant and ‘frighten the pants off everyone’
Day 5 of the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files and the most startling stories yet. Here’s what’s new: Matt Hancock asked when…
Hancock and Gove’s cringeworthy Covid love-in
Last night it seemed as if the Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages released by the Telegraph couldn’t get any worse, after…
Seven things we learned from the juiciest lockdown files yet
Day four of the lockdown files and it’s the juiciest so far. Here’s what the Telegraph released last night: 1. Matt Hancock thought…
Matt Hancock’s Covid social media frenzy
Another day, another painful set of WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock. Yet again the Daily Telegraph have released another batch…
Five things we’ve learned on day three of Hancock’s lockdown files
Ping! It’s day three of the ‘Lockdown Files’ and a whole new tranche of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s WhastApp…
Trans row rocks Guardian towers, again
Oh dear. It seems that life in the offices of the world’s wokest paper isn’t all its cracked up to…
Five things we’ve learned on day two of Hancock’s lockdown files
More revealing Matt Hancock messages dropped late last night as the Telegraph released another tranche of the former health secretary’s WhatsApps. Here…
Watch: ministers considered ‘exterminating all cats’ in Covid
It’s not a great time to be a friend of Matt Hancock, knowing that any moment the Telegraph might splash…
Five things we’ve learned from Hancock’s lockdown files
It’s not just the spectre of Brexit that is haunting Westminster. Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories…
Coming soon: Matt Hancock’s media empire
Boris, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol – all are dominating the news agenda yet again. So it only seems…
Why was EU chief due to meet King Charles?
There’s been a sense of deja vu in Westminster in recent days, with a Tory leader under pressure on Europe…
Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader
It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader…
Kate Forbes’ nightmare 24 hours
It seems that Kate Forbes’ stance on same-sex marriage hasn’t gone down too well with some of her more socially…
Kate Forbes: I’m against gay marriage and self-ID
It’s day one of Kate Forbes’ bid to be First Minister and she is certainly making headlines. The Finance Minister…
South Park incinerates Harry and Meghan
If we hadn’t heard enough about ‘the Dumb Prince and His Stupid Wife’ – not Steerpike’s words – now South Park has…
Trump denounces ‘failed woke extremist’ Sturgeon
Reading some of the tributes from English luvvies yesterday, you would have had no idea that Nicola Sturgeon was anything…
Who really owns Britain’s waterways?
Stop press: Fleet Street is officially full of sewage. Flicking through the papers this morning, Steerpike was intrigued to see…
