May gives Boris a taste of his own medicine
Oh dear. Is Boris Johnson’s bid to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol over before it really began? First, Simon…
Rishi continues the crypto-craze
Poor Rishi Sunak. The Chancellor was once the golden boy of British politics: the free-spending, Insta-loving, charm-oozing toast of the…
More than 3,000 Tube drivers earn £70,000 each
Londoners have today been cursing the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) trade union for the misery that its 24-hour walkout…
China hawks demand TikTok answers
In Westminster these days, WhatsApp and Twitter are decidedly old school. Now the current craze is TikTok where MPs compete…
Millions more blown on parliamentary pantomime
Whether it’s crumbling rooftiles, weekly fire alarms being activated or bacteria in the water supplies, the creaking Palace of Westminster…
Tories beat inflation with glitzy ball
The cost-of-living crisis might be gripping the country but there was no sign of that at the Tories’ summer party…
Boris pulls out of levelling up conference
To Doncaster, home of the horses and the Northern Research Group conference. But there was only one race on the…
Another Boris diplomatic blunder
Boris Johnson has never been one of nature’s diplomats. Unconventional, irreverent, Brexit-backing and norm-defying, the blonde bombshell’s two-year tenure at…
Putin's Davos flops after sanctions
Oh dear. It seems that starting an unprovoked war is not the best way to inspire foreign investment in your…
New Yorker claims 'racism' dominated jubilee
Just what is it with New Yorkers and London? Normally Steerpike’s ire for the Big Apple is reserved for the…
Estonian PM: When will Macron stop talking to genocidal Putin?
Alongside Britain, Estonia has been among Kyiv’s staunchest allies in its efforts to repulse Putin’s forces, delivering more military equipment…
Does Macron have a police problem?
Things are spicing up over in France. Not content with tear-gassing British children, the Parisian gendarmerie seem to be turning…
Is the Financial Times ashamed of capitalism?
It seems no-one has a good word to say about capitalism these days. For now, even the Financial Times –…
Sue Gray releases her partygate pics
Well, it’s finally here. After five months of waiting, Sue Gray has today released her report into the parties that…
Top US pollster: don't ditch Boris
To the CPS, the think-tank home of Thatcherite free-thinking. On today’s agenda: a sermon from Frank Luntz, the onetime populist Republican…
China's secret property empire
The Russian bear might be back but the Chinese dragon waits in the wings. Moscow’s spectacularly mismanaged invasion of Ukraine…
Ukraine triumphs on Russia's turf
‘Jaw jaw’ remarked Churchill ‘is always better than war war.’ And some of London’s finest jaws were being put to…
Former Tory chief whip calls for Boris to quit
It never rains for No. 10 but it pours. After both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were last week fined…
Partygate cuts through with voters
The Tory task at the next election is enormous. No party in the democratic age has ever won a fifth…
Six times Boris and Rishi denied breaking the law
Well, that’s that then. This afternoon the Metropolitan Police fined the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of Exchequer for breaking…
CCHQ's unfortunate Jimmy Savile link
Oh dear. Just last week, on the day that Boris Johnson raised National Insurance, it was pointed out to the bright…
The Guardian goes for J.K. Rowling
It seems that taking gratuitous swipes at J.K. Rowling has become something of a competition for liberal broadsheets on both sides…
Five ways for Rishi to bounce back
Four weeks ago, Rishi Sunak was riding high, Boris Johnson was on the slide and the Chancellor’s daughter was proudly…
Five hysterical reactions to Channel 4's sell-off
Roll up, roll up! The great Channel 4 sell-off is now on. The Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, is pushing ahead with…
Six Biden-Harris howlers on Ukraine
It’s 15 months since President Biden swept into the White House, where, judging by his current poll ratings, his tenure…
