Kemi Badenoch will answer the Chancellor’s Budget Speech. The Conservative record on promoting women and people from ethnic minorities speaks for itself: there is no need to brag. Instead, the Opposition Leader can focus on the real priority – the economy.
Braverman’s views on Englishness aren’t a sign of the times. They’re a sign of her age. Among some ethnic minorities of her generation, these attitudes are common, but they reflect the world they were raised in – not the one we live in today.
As long as this former priest and aspirant actor can find some high moral reason for doing so, he loves to make trouble.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.
In this feature, we look at some of the most memorable podcasts of the last few weeks.
In this feature, we look at some of the most memorable podcasts of the last few weeks.
The President of COP26 is suddenly so well-known that he attracts criticism as well as admiration, and interest in his roots as an admirer of Thatcher.
Many Tories are alarmed by the tax rises recently announced by the Government, and will be looking for reassurance from Sunak.
Here, in a nutshell, is why Labour is struggling to make progress. Its obsession with identity politics puts it at odds with the majority of British people.
“But we also need to see greater use of facemasks” and “let’s get testing and tracing up and running”, says the Shadow Health Secretary.
He is tipped by some as a future Prime Minister, but is more plausibly seen as a future Chancellor.
Plus: Vicious Cybernats. Bolton’s brass neck. Widdecombe’s ratings. Johnson’s death wish. And: the courage of my friend Tessa Jowell.
Plus: Tories – too vague. UKIP – too specific. LibDems: what are they for? Why the polls could all be wrong. And: I win an award, and am baffled.
It’s always in the short term interests of politicians and the BBC to simply continue with the old, tired model. But the very thing that is keeping the BBC going is holding it back, preventing it from truly modernising or coming to terms with its failures.