Starmer’s absence permitted the Prime Minister to relax, and to strike a kinder, gentler tone.
If the BBC wants to balance its coverage of the culture war, it should commission this Oxford ethicist to tell the truth about Britain’s past.
The Speaker threatened to run Hancock “ragged” if the Health Secretary continues to insult the House.
O’Toole is a strong supporter of CANZUK, the projected alliance of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
His columns from The Times are informed by his experience of what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work.
Using modern Germany as a stick with which to beat old-fashioned Britain is a grave mistake.
Starmer had a success, conveying genuine moral indignation as he asked tough questions.
America’s Constitution is remarkable not because it produces a stream of great Presidents, but because it survives the election of so many bad ones.
Anyone else would have known that vandalising the Last Night of the Proms would provoke a furious reaction.
If politicians stopped pretending to an almost totalitarian infallibility, and encouraged the rest of us to show what we can do, the results would be better.
I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.
Much of this book is true, and the author does not pretend fully to understand what is happening. And yet I think her pessimism is overdone.
The Leader of the Opposition got across the message that the Labour Party is under new management.
Hoyle and Fowler are deeply opposed to the move, but Labour voters in the North of England like the sound of it.
He has demonstrated prodigious powers of endurance, keeping going through storms of criticism which would have driven many a lesser figure out of politics.