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Keep your shirt on, Keir, all this bluster over Nike’s St George’s Cross is a false flag

The Labour leader jumped on the critical bandwagon about the sports giant’s colourful new update of the England team’s kit, but the real outrage is the profiteering price tag

Published: 31 Mar 2024

Published: 31 Mar 2024

If you hate Amazon, blame Rishi Sunak

The online giant’s vast storage unit on the M1 is a logistical miracle – it’s a pity the lax-on-tax PM has spoiled the view

Published: 25 Feb 2024

Published: 25 Feb 2024

I’m not keen on our aversion to keenness

Princess Kate is criticised for being enthusiastic in a new royal book, but using eagerness as a slur is silly and snobbish

Published: 3 Dec 2023

Published: 3 Dec 2023

‘From divinely inspired warrior to compulsively snacking gammon’: David Mitchell on England’s unruly royals – exclusive extract

In this excerpt from his new book on England’s kings and queens, David Mitchell finds unlikely parallels between William the Conqueror and James Bond

Published: 24 Sep 2023
Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

Published: 24 Sep 2023
A note of caution about the withdrawal of cash

Without coins and notes, unaccountable banks can know everything we’re spending. Is that good?

Published: 17 Sep 2023

Published: 17 Sep 2023
What, a school revamp once every 440 years isn’t enough?

Rishi Sunak is evading his duty of care after slashing millions from the budget for repairing schools when he was chancellor

Published: 10 Sep 2023

Published: 10 Sep 2023

Can fleeing Tories be turned into quality TV?

With more than 40 Conservatives seeking new employment before the next election, media careers could be on the cards

Published: 9 Jul 2023

Published: 9 Jul 2023

Who would pay to hear our drivel? That appears to be the Tories’ logic

Charging journalists to attend their party conference suggests the Conservatives hope to win the next election by staying under the radar

Published: 25 Jun 2023

Published: 25 Jun 2023
Would you put an erect penis on a packet of cheese? Absolutely no whey

Removing the incongruous image of the Cerne Abbas giant’s member from a dairy product was the upstanding thing to do

Published: 11 Jun 2023

Published: 11 Jun 2023

Take it from someone in a TV duo: Holly and Phil are simply sick of each other

Whatever the specifics of Willoughby and Schofield’s quarrel, a major cause can be summarised in two words: you again

Published: 28 May 2023

Published: 28 May 2023
Rishi Sunak’s football video is a political own goal

The PM’s scattergun attempts at image projection tell us nothing about who he really is

Published: 21 May 2023

Published: 21 May 2023

Further maths from Sunak is still a fail

The PM banging on – again – about numeracy doesn’t look likely to provoke the conflict he’s hoping for

Published: 23 Apr 2023

Published: 23 Apr 2023
Has London reached peak toxicity?

The UK capital, stagnant with oligarchs, is now so despised that even institutions such as the BBC are jumping ship

Published: 2 Apr 2023

Published: 2 Apr 2023

My attire this season? Anything unnoticeable

Like TV journalist Michael Crick, I’m a fan of ties. But for precisely the opposite reason

Published: 26 Mar 2023

Published: 26 Mar 2023
Elon Musk is the Basil Fawlty of social media

The Twitter owner’s latest public debacle over a sacked worker can only do more damage to the company’s future prosperity

Published: 12 Mar 2023

Published: 12 Mar 2023

‘Updating’ Roald Dahl? It’s the same old story…

Rewriting the children’s author is about profit not ‘wokeness’ – part of the endless recycling and exploitation of old ideas

Published: 26 Feb 2023

Published: 26 Feb 2023
The return of Fawlty Towers can’t rival the Truss comeback farce

The former prime minister’s lack of self-awareness would be comedy gold if her prose weren’t so desperately dull

Published: 12 Feb 2023

Published: 12 Feb 2023

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