Old Woman Europe
The explanation for vaccine caution among our neighbours may have as much to so with sociology as politics.
Don’t blame the police for failures to hold them accountable. To make streets safer, have more local control.
That there may be as many as three investigations into Saturday’s events on Clapham Common tells us much we need to know.
Johnson – “Our new, full-spectrum approach to cyber will transform our ability to protect our people”
The Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy is upon us. But will the capabilities follow the challenges, or vice-versa?
Looking back at the Budget a week on, its plan for growth is not convincing
The Government can’t deliver levelling up without more supply-side change, localism and public service reform.
If the EU is as committed to the Belfast Agreement as it claims to be, here’s what it will do, sooner or later
If strict East-West checks and North-South checks are problematic, the only solution left standing is to minimise the former by rewriting the Protocol.
The Duchess’ race claims. Starmer goes to court with a brief he hasn’t read.
And done so without increasing the likelihood of instruction for what will be the most important case of his life – the next general election.
School reform post-Covid. Beware of throwing out Gove’s baby with the bathwater.
The most disadvantaged pupils would lose out most were the coming rethink to abandon his legacy.
ConHome’s survey. Johnson’s rating for handling Covid reaches its highest since last spring.
And the Chancellor’s score survives the Budget relatively intact: his score is down, but there is no sudden collapse.
Our survey. A majority of respondents back Sunak’s Budget. Under one in ten say it was bad.
Fifty eight per cent think was good or very good; 34 per cent a mix of good and bad.
Our post-Budget Cabinet League Table. Sunak is still second – though his score is his lowest as Chancellor since Covid.
Mind you, he retains a strongly positive rating. Truss remains top – and Lord Frost comes straight in at fourth.
Are Johnson and Sunak preparing the way for a snap election in 2023?
The Budget was, if truly honest, a sign that the Government shuns spending cuts and embraces tax rises – which is ultimately unsustainable.
“With one exception, those promoted in our intake have been women, ethnic minority members, or gay”
The troubled story of Conservative MPs, identity politics, fairness, looking like modern Britain – and a headache for Party managers.
Britain’s music industry, the EU, the UK – and an early entry for Frost’s inbox
He is well-placed to knock on the doors of individual member states, as the Government and the Union lock horns over free movement.
The Budget should be a big reset moment for post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. It risks being lost amidst a rush to tax rises.
It will probe whether or or not Sunak can prepare the country for that future – and perhaps succeed Johnson himself, “one fine day”.
“There had been suggestions by members of ‘Team Carrie’ that Mr Cummings was behind the hostile briefings against the dog.” Discuss.
Does this sentence say more about a) Dominic Cummings? b) Carrie Symonds? c) The media? d) The dog?