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Marina HydeThe Guardian |
Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone...
Are you, like me, struggling to get a handle on the current government’s approach to empathy? It increasingly seems to be a commodity that many...
Pull yourself a pint of Night Nurse to wash down news that Conservative rebels who are plotting to bin off Rishi Sunak after the local elections...
According to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York...
How encouraging to learn of another shot in the arm for the Enhanced Games. If you’re not familiar with it, this is the sporting event scheduled for...
Where do you stand on The Rock? A question to which the answer can only be, “Please – not on his face!” Wrestler, movie star, high-intensity...
Where to start with Westminster’s latest scandal, which – without wishing to speculate on spoilers – I suggest you formally label as...
Fire up a Chariots of Fire-style theme tune for the speech of the defeated Oxford captain in last Saturday’s Boat Race, beamed edifyingly around the...
I wouldn’t say I’m a Conservative confidence-vote prepper, but like many in the political survivalist community I do prefer to keep track of the...
So sad to see the Conservative party talking down Britain in its new attack ad for the London mayoral elections, which – among other deliberate and...
At last, some happy news. Rupert Murdoch is engaged – and for the second time in less than a year. I know! Despite being 93 next Monday, he’s...
Episode two of the new season of Drive to Survive begins with an at-home scene of Father Christmas visiting Red Bull team principal Christian...
Say what you will about King Charles’s previously fanfared vision for a “slimmed-down monarchy”, its injury woes suggest it could do with buying...
Four weeks ago, Rishi Sunak was hoping he could find a way to return Lee Anderson to his job as the deputy chair of the Conservative party after...
For reasons I won’t trouble you with, I missed the events of Wednesday afternoon and evening in the House of Commons. Normally, that would be a...
Behold, the current must-have accessory for all the most grimly murderous dictators – a pet American idiot. Not just any American idiot, obviously....
Confusing news from the byelections in Wellingborough and Kingswood, given that Downing Street has spent recent weeks explaining Britain is...
Full hazmat kit, please, for the Rochdale byelection, where the chaos and cast of grotesque characters says so much about the state of British...
To the US, where one likely candidate for the presidency delivers hour-long rambling speeches in which he explains that he’s going to be a dictator,...
Roll up, roll up – roll up a fat one for the launch of the Popular Conservatives, apparently a new vehicle for “the Trussite wing of the party”....
Did you catch a clip of the tech CEOs in Washington this week? The Senate judiciary committee had summoned five CEOs to a hearing titled Big Tech and...
Did some randos calling him a “racist” on the platform formerly known as Twitter cost Laurence Fox his acting career? No, suggests a judgment from...
Keeping track of Conservative party plotters is becoming like keeping track of Hollywood abusers during the #MeToo peak. Having notched up three prime...
“I call it the ‘holy slap’ now,” purred Jada Pinkett Smith of her husband’s decision to lamp Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars two years...
Another week of rock-bottom moments for the drama-addicted Conservative party, who continue to insist to concerned friends and enemies alike that...
Lovers of full-combat Prince Harry rows will be positively looping the loop over the latest one, which has drawn former British military chiefs out of...
In one of his most recent works, the renowned Italian anthropologist Vito Teti argues that the social value of nostalgia has been underrated and...
According to Downing Street, the prime minister is now backing a knighthood for Alan Bates. Bates’s 20-year campaign for justice for post office...
A week since ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office aired, and can you hear that sound? Can you feel the gathering thunder of politicians’ hooves, as...
UN election monitors to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ballot, please, as a load of guys simply cannot accept that England goalkeeper Mary...
Draw near, readers, for these are testing times for bouncy-blow-dried plague profiteer Michelle Mone and her husband/support garment Doug Barrowman....
Can the Conservative party of recent years ever really be said to have been in recovery from its addiction to pure, teeth-gnashing chaos? It’s...
How does the UK government truly see the country of Rwanda? Is it as a vibrant and secure place to start a new life? Or is it – to adapt a phrase...
According to all the people he’s leaked his witness statement to, Boris Johnson will tell the Covid inquiry not to pay much attention to WhatsApp...
A hugely intriguing week in Dutch publishing mishaps, as the Netherlands’ edition of a new book about the royals names King Charles and the Princess...
“A petrostate hosting a climate conference” sounds like a situation shouted out at an improv night, after they’ve done the ones about a fox...
To the Australian jungle, where the most successful politician of his generation/seven-times-failed UK parliamentary candidate Nigel Farage is...
Who’s that walking up Downing Street? Why, it’s the man who ghosted Britain! In some ways the sight of David Cameron back in SW1 was always a...
Britain is a country that will always come up with new ways to honour its war heroes. You just can’t stop us – respect simply finds a way. Thus it...
Has there ever been anything more British than the reaction to Nadine Dorries’s book? The former culture secretary has penned a volume titled The...
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk was begging Taylor Swift to release some concert videos on his X platform, but she weirdly seems to have gone ahead with...
Tuesday at the Covid inquiry was men-who-think-about-the-Roman-empire day. Dominic Cummings presents as a man who thinks of the Roman empire so often...
Another week, another arrest on suspicion of sexual assault for a member of parliament – Britain’s grimmest workplace. Even the nightclub bouncer...
Imagine how shocked I was to have my free speech endangered by the boss of GB News before the channel even launched. Angelos Frangopoulos was offended...
Consider the struggle of a modern statesman such as Rishi Sunak, forced to segue from fibbing about a meat tax and state-mandated carpooling to flying...