Category : Political

Perma-smirking Priti Patel brings the hostile environment in-house | Marina Hyde

It’s the home secretary’s trickiest week since her ‘holiday’ in Israel, but at least she’s visible. Where’s the prime minister?According to officials from one of her former departments, Priti Patel was given to coming out of her office and inquiring:...

Dominic Cummings has started to believe he’s cool. What can you say but, ‘Ooooh’? | Marina Hyde

He likes to play badass, but if he’s so ruthless why does the cabinet still contain such mediocrities as Gavin Williamson and Liz Truss?With regret, I must begin with an apology. As the Westminster-based events of Thursday unfolded, I recalled with m...

That was Brexit: the mad energy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but lasting three and a half years | Marina Hyde

It unearthed some of the worst people in the country – on both sides. And the worst of all were the politiciansTonight’s Parliament Square party to mark Brexit was hit by a ban on booze, live music and fireworks – the first three in a presumably infi...