This week Liz Truss has embarked on the press tour of a lifetime with her new book, Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons from the only conservative in the room. She's been casting blame from the UN to
Less than a week after Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile strike against Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has retaliated. Early on Friday (19 April), Israel hit Iranian soil with a missile, ac
What is the Angela Rayner story about? “Pure politics” – though there’s no such thing, it’s an oxymoron. It’s about revenge, hypocrisy and condescension. On the facts, the tax expert Dan Neidle has gi
The Prime Minister is expected to address the House of Commons later to update parliament on the RAF’s role in the Middle East over the weekend. British Typhoons intercepted Iranian drones that were h
However starry it may be – there are enough big names here to fill a red carpet – there’s no getting away from the fact that Feud: Capote vs the Swans is niche TV. If, like me, you’re a fan of the par
What is the point of Liz Truss? The UK’s shortest-serving prime minister left office having lost the confidence of the financial markets, her parliamentary colleagues and the general public. What poss
Keir Starmer likes to recount that when he became director of public prosecutions, he visited Crown Prosecution Service offices around the country in order to assess the institution’s problems.
In the summer of 1913, the newly appointed US ambassador to Great Britain, Walter Hines Page, wrote to a friend back in Washington: “These English are spending their capital… what are we going to do w
On a recent tour of British bookshops, the American author Percival Everett visited Bath. He spent some time signing copies of his most recent book, James, in the independent bookshop Toppings, then w
The year is AD 33 and in Jerusalem, LaKeith Stanfield’s Clarence can’t help but notice that people keep throwing money at a guy named Jesus. “You ever see Jesus buy a pair of sandals?” he asks with a
Is a trap still a trap if you can see it coming but have no choice but to stumble into it anyway? That’s the question posed by today’s boisterous post-recess PMQs. It’s only day three, but this week h