Tomorrow’s spectacle is better understood as poetry than in the severely rational terms of democratic theorists who accept no need for religion and ritual.
The Prime Minister showed the resilience indistinguishable from shamelessness which all PMs require.
The odd thing about this author and hisĀ Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
The two leaders preached to the converted by trading exaggerated insults.
The may do so by concentrating on “the unsexy stuff that people care about”, which include dog mess, potholes and parking.
Labour MPs watched Starmer with the anxious air of primary school parents whose child has been miscast in the nativity play.
George Smith, the local Conservative leader, expects to beat Residents for Uttlesford, but faces acutely difficult decisions about how many houses to build.
Many former Labour supporters may decide on 4th May that the Conservatives, led now by a Hindu PM, are a better bet.
On Good Friday, we should recall that whatever is thriving in the Church is ignored in the media, and should heed Dr Johnson’s example.
There is no time for writing yet more reports about Child Sexual Exploitation: the Government wishes to show it is now going to act.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.
Burke would not have been impressed by large number of merely local concerns raised by MPs.
Many voters want moral seriousness, most politicians have difficulty finding the language needed to provide it, but the present Prime Minister thinks he may be able to.
The former Prime Minister offered a professional defence of the unwise assurances he gave to the Commons in December 2021.
Over this speech hung a sense that the Chancellor was with impeccable dutifulness making the best of a bad job.