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As pandemic announcements go, the chancellor’s second budget can’t compete with his Instagram hoodie shotsExchequer spokesmodel/gyoza-toting architect of Eat Out To Spread It About/the Conservative party’s idea of a cool person. Wherever you were bef...
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1 week ago
Forget the spad wars at No 10 – the real drama is over Dilyn, the prime minister’s sexually incontinent canine“I won’t be buccaneering with people’s lives.” I think you dropped an “any more”, prime minister. But hey – let’s not tell our sad stories....
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2 weeks ago
Four years ago, Brexiteers led an iceberg-worthy event on the Thames. Now they’ve ghosted an entire industry“Every revolution evaporates,” declared Kafka, “and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” The government’s Brexit deal has gone...
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3 weeks ago
The government’s new quarantine restrictions sound tough – but they’re exactly one year too lateYesterday’s news that the government had still yet to sign a single contract with a hotel for its quarantine scheme felt puzzling. Traditionally, politici...
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3 weeks ago
The lawyerly Labour leader may think the public want calm and competence, but has he met them lately?Like all desperate thrill-seekers in this interminable lockdown, I was momentarily stirred to hear there were some handbags between Boris Johnson and...
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1 month ago
It’s a tribute to the ingenuity of the human spirit that the UK and the EU can still come up with new sources of bitter disputeHow are you enjoying the vaccine wars? The EU’s meltdown at the UK is one of those rows that turns you into the grimace-fac...
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1 month ago
It seems the virus is the only thing ministers are happy to see crossing the UK’s borders without getting tied up in red tapeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt’s been encouraging to hear for yonks now that this idea of qua...
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1 month ago
Joe Biden has moved a sculpture off his desk. Cue howls of outrage – but a perplexing silence from Boris JohnsonGird your loins, foot soldiers – or maybe don’t, for these are confusing times in the Conservative culture wars. On the one hand the commu...
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1 month ago
In public their MPs say he’s doing an ‘incredible’ job. But, after all the U-turns, in private the false bonhomie is failingThere is no one vignette about the government’s handling of the pandemic that “says it all”, but there will always be a broken...
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1 month ago
You’d have thought the crisis would give them pause. But then, like the government, they have a hard time learning from their mistakesI am agonised to learn that the Daily Telegraph has been censured for a column published last July, in which Toby Yo...
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1 month ago
Given his dismal blame-shifting record on the pandemic, the further away he is from the seat of power, the betterCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLockdown day number what-does-it-even-matter-any-more, and what’s the general...
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1 month ago
As we enter a third national lockdown, it’s clear the PM is repeating his own mistakes at a colossal cost to everyone elseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAnother series of breakneck U-turns from the government’s world-beat...
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2 months ago
His compassion for the public may be limited, but never let it be said that our leader is a man who neglects his own emotionsIt is one of the curiosities of this inside-out age that Donald Trump is loved by conspiracists, even though he is a leader –...
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2 months ago
From the tier system to the Brexit deal or no deal, Tory MPs have an incredibly busy schedule of self-deception to juggle My favourite ever political doorstep question came from Michael Crick, who greeted a certain New Labour figure with the early mo...
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2 months ago
Nobody U-turns more than this government. Still, it’s ploughing ahead with its plans to ‘save Christmas’Once history has repeated itself as tragedy, and then as farce, where does it go for the third wave? Panto? Certainly, small children would now be...