Category : Political

Who's winning the Beergate battle? In this excruciating instalment, it's hard to tell | Marina Hyde

The spectacle of Keir Starmer v the Daily Mail is painful – but not as painful as the actual cost of living crisis Continue reading...

Arse-kickings? Snap elections? Roll up for all the local results drama | Marina Hyde

After a bruising night, the best the PM can offer his troops is that the result wasn’t a total meltdown Continue reading...

For this NSFW government, it’s the last days of Rome. Do they really still think voters don’t care?| Marina Hyde

Ministers bank on the public overlooking little issues like rampant sexual misconduct and cronyism. That’s optimistic Continue reading...

Seriously, Tory party, there is no pooper scooper big enough to clear up Johnson’s constant mess | Marina Hyde

If you’re defending a PM who makes draconian new laws then breaks them, I’m afraid your public service mechanism is shot Continue reading...

Sexual assault: regrettable, but no impediment to a parliamentary career | Marina Hyde

Of course Crispin Blunt defended fellow Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan. Criminality is the norm in the Commons these days Continue reading...

You have to admit The Rishi Sunak Show is hilarious. The non-dom episode is the best yet | Marina Hyde

The hapless chancellor just can’t get anything right – you should see him answer questions about his wife’s tax arrangements Continue reading...

It’s totally OK to break laws in England – just ask the MPs who make them | Marina Hyde

Jacob Rees-Mogg calling Covid regulations ‘unkind and inhuman’ says it all: following the rules is strictly for other people Continue reading...

Who pays the P&O ferryman? The 800 staff thrown overboard, of course | Marina Hyde

The Dubai-owned ferry company’s treatment of its former employees has managed to appal even the UK government Continue reading...

A world-leading visa system? Tell that to Ukrainian refugees who can’t get past Calais | Marina Hyde

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine called for a historic response. What we got was the same old, same old: from nasty to useless Continue reading...

Just when No 10 wants to be taken seriously, it creates Sir Gavin Williamson | Marina Hyde

It’s hard to believe Boris Johnson will really crack down on Putin’s cronies, when he’s just knighted one of his own Continue reading...

I’m begging you, Hancock and the Home Front heroes: just sit this one out | Marina Hyde

Chaps, this isn’t the time to be relaunching careers – this cruel, deadly war in Ukraine is not for your exhilaration Continue reading...

It's Putin’s tale of two cities - London for his oligarchs, Kyiv for his bombs | Marina Hyde

Our capital pulls its punches when it comes to penalising Russia’s richest, but Putin shows no such mercy to Ukraine Continue reading...

As Putin’s tanks roll into Ukraine, he knows exactly who to feel sorry for: himself | Marina Hyde

We live in an age of sentimental hardmen – just listen to the Russian leader’s aggressively maudlin demands for ‘respect’ Continue reading...

You can’t erase history. But if you lived on Prince Andrew Way, you might have a go | Marina Hyde

Thanks to the Duke of York and Oliver Dowden’s preposterous war on woke, the culture wars are now being fought in a street near you Continue reading...

The innocent have paid a high price for the Post Office scandal. The guilty have not | Marina Hyde

It was the word of hundreds of Post Office workers against a faulty computer system. Guess who was believed? Continue reading...