I’m lonely but the Loneliness Minister won’t take my calls
I blame Bercow. The Speaker has introduced a strange new custom to the Commons. He likes to point out his…
Does the tantrum-prone SNP not realise how privileged Scotland is?
Jeremy Corbyn had one of his best PMQs ever. Then it all went wrong. His witty use of Boris’s recent…
Are the late nights flogging Labour Live tickets getting to Corbyn?
Odd sights at PMQs today. Theresa May wore a dark blue outfit covered in an outbreak of Pollock-esque dots, as…
Labour’s obesity crisis
PMQs began with a question about obesity from Labour’s Kerry McCarthy. The crisis has reached breaking-point, she said. Our chubby…
Corbyn’s comic timing is more Karl Marx than Groucho
He’s making the most of it before he gets the push. The Speaker chaired one of the longest-ever sessions of…
Is time up for John Bercow?
More trouble for the Speaker today. It’s becoming clear that John Bercow is not just unpopular but unlucky as well.…
Jeremy Corbyn’s PMQs capitulation
It was a masterclass in capitulation, a stunning act of self-slaughter. And yet, in a way, it was pitifully inept.…
Why didn’t David Lammy give Corbyn a helping hand at PMQs?
The royal nativity opened proceedings at PMQs. Mrs May sounded thrilled about the newborn nipper but the Labour leader could…
John Bercow spares Jeremy Corbyn’s blushes at PMQs
Would she resign over Windrush? Having spent nearly eight years at the heart of government, Theresa May was clearly deeply involved…
Quentin Letts isn’t racist – our theatrical culture, which hands out jobs on the basis of racial profiling, is
Oh my goodness. Quentin Letts is ‘a racist’ apparently . It says so on Twitter. In his review of the…
May’s PMQs attitude should worry Corbyn
Poor Jeremy Corbyn seemed muted and cowed at PMQs. He stooped over the despatch box, his chin down, his voice murmuring…
Jeremy Corbyn shows why he shouldn’t stick to the script at PMQs
Brexit is going well, apparently. And the prime minister seemed in chipper mood at PMQs. She was even enjoying herself.…
John Bercow was curiously quiet at PMQs
John Bercow, parliament’s anti-bullying tsar, was strangely reticent at PMQs today. The all-but-speechless Speaker limited himself to a single intervention.…
‘Mansplaining’ Corbyn plumbs new depths at PMQs
Jezza was on spectacularly dreary form at PMQs. He droned through a communique about International Women’s Day which made the…
PMQs sketch: MPs take the Barnier Plan seriously
The thoughts of M Barnier get barnier and barnier. Today’s crazy idea from the EU’s chief negotiator was a ‘common…
Does John Bercow think politics is illegal?
The Speaker decided that he should be the star-turn at PMQs, descending from his high chair and delivered one his longest ever speeches
Theresa May makes it an unhappy birthday for Dennis Skinner
The S-bomb landed on PMQs this afternoon. Suffragettes. Exactly a century and a day has passed since parliament granted women…
David Lammy’s shambolic PMQs appearance should worry Corbyn
Theresa May is in China so the Westminster bunfight has been replaced by dull politics. Journalists hate dull politics. But…
Does Jeremy Corbyn think the Tories are to blame for human mortality?
Boris Johnson came up early in PMQs. The Cabinet’s new ‘shadow chancellor’ has called for extra money – five billion…
Hopeless Jeremy Corbyn manages to out-feeble Theresa May yet again
Carillion. It doesn’t help that the name resembles a kiddie’s word, like gazillion, suggesting an astronomical sum of cash. The sudden…
Cuts, queues and death dominate PMQs
Cuts, queues and death. These motifs dominated the New Year instalment of PMQs. At the end of the last episode, shortly…
The SNP is a coven of hysterical exhibitionists
Have you noticed the temperature? It’s got weirdly balmy all of a sudden. And the forecasters are predicting a spell…
Jeremy Corbyn reveals his inner Blairite
Simple result at PMQs. Mrs May won without trying. Mr Corbyn lost in the same way. Even at his most…
Jeremy Corbyn scores six own-goals in a row at PMQs
Ah the joys of political marriages. Theresa May’s pact with the DUP bolstered her at PMQs today, and she delivered…
How did Damian Green ever reach the Cabinet?
The PM is in the middle-east on her ‘strong and stable leadership’ tour. Replacing her at PMQs stood Damian Green,…
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