While Badenoch retreated to her PMQs script, the real opposition leader was at a Washington hearing on free speech You could argue that prime minister’s questions is no longer fit for purpose. Indeed, that it never really has been. Just a theatre showcase for some performance politics where few answers […]
Month: September 2025
News of Lady Mary’s divorce is presented with impeccable seriousness in a watchable outing that shouldn’t be the last Grand finale? Oh please. Let’s get real; there is no reason why this particular brand of gibbering, wittering, blithering and surreally enjoyable nonsense shouldn’t go on for ever, like Frank Sinatra’s […]
As toxic nationalism spills over into our shared spaces, the England shirt is freighted with meaning for better or worse The crosses of St George are flying all around me. Fair to say the opening line of Three Lions ’98 hits a little differently in 2025. The crosses of St […]
The TV comedy duo are back this week with their first new sketch show in 15 years, Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping. Do newer comics think they’re old farts? They tell all David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back with their first new sketch show in 15 years. It’s […]
His landslide victory surprised the left too. Voters have more enthusiasm for radical policies than we give them credit for What risk could the election of Zack Polanski as leader pose for the Green party? That’s what journalists wondered aloud on one current affairs format after another, on Tuesday evening. […]
The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will […]
Veganism is still on the rise, but many popular venues and chains are shutting down. Are they victims of a terrible era for hospitality or part of a growing shift in cultural values? When London’s Unity Diner wrapped up 2024 with the announcement that it would soon be shutting its […]
The new party leader is not afraid to say what he thinks, and that is pretty much anything to get attention The invitation promised that the results of the Green party leadership election would be one of the most consequential political events of the autumn. That might be pushing it, […]
We assess how each top-flight side fared in the search for quality and value during the summer window Transfer interactive: all the deals from across Europe Andrea Berta’s first transfer window since taking over as sporting director has been busy. Headline moves for Viktor Gyökeres and Eberechi Eze have given […]
Festivals are increasingly seen as a family holiday and many have kids’ areas – even nannies. We brave the hot tents and random ravers to see what they’re like As a DJ plays MJ Cole’s UK garage classic Crazy Love, adults across London’s Cross the Tracks festival lift up little […]