WATCH: Charles Walker accuses Hague and Gove of dishonesty in the Bercow debate

“I have been played as a fool. But I would much rather be an honourable fool, in this and any other matter, than a clever man.”

A mis-formed villain who seized power through treachery is today to be solemnly buried

I refer, of course, to the funeral of Richard III. But some MPs, not all of them Tories, have a different committal in mind.

WATCH: Alexander struggles to deliver the Liberal Democrats’ alternative Budget

There weren’t many MPs in the House for Danny’s big moment, but they still managed to make plenty of noise.

Labour’s foxes: not so much shot as incinerated. Fleet Street’s take on the budget.

As the election looms, the papers are shifting back to their political comfort zones. But the consensus is that Osborne has drawn some of the sting from Miliband’s attack.

From Reggie to Dessie: Cleavages, bald patches – and Colonel Bob of Bosnia fame

Plus: Stephen O’Brien triumphant. What not to wear while canvassing. Commons catering, KFC-style. And: Kensington – that snake-pit of ambitious thrusters.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Anyone for a game of political football over the health service?

As a spectator sport, this continual tripping, kicking, stamping, striking, biting, gouging and even emasculating of the other side leaves something to be desired.

Pritchard is cleared – now Bercow must account for his behaviour

The Speaker’s ill-judged intervention in the case is the latest in a long series of serious errors on his part.

The Scottish referendum is our political event and scrap of the year

The close-run fight for the future of our country comfortably wins both polls by clear majorities, trumping defections to UKIP and showdowns with Europe.

Terry Barnes: The further woes of the Speaker’s favourite official

Carole Mills is tangled up in a burqa ban – and a Select Committee report that it was misled about her knowledge of an Australian parliamentary controversy.

Iain Dale: My clash this week with Cable

Plus: Marr again. Shot foxes. Unhatted rabbits. Bercow’s revenge. Sir Trevor Brooking’s posterior. And: thanks to Stuart in customer services, who made this column possible.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: white van man becomes the arbiter of politics

We got Shakespeare driving a white van, or at least commenting on one, but he was trumped by an MP who actually has white vans in his family.

John Stevens: The struggles of Bercow, and the rise of UKIP and the SNP, tell the same story about our democracy

Only radical parliamentary reform will restore popular trust in Westminster – and the Speaker cannot be part of it.

Terry Barnes: Carol Mills is a decent person who has been left by the Speaker in an impossible position

She is being hung out to dry by John Bercow’s determination both to get his own way and save his parliamentary skin.

Profile: John Bercow, one of the best Speakers of modern times, but also by far the rudest

The case for Bercow as a great reformer tends to be obscured by his astonishingly bad manners.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: hostilities suspended as Cameron and Miliband unite in the face of terrorism

Only the points of order raised against John Bercow by three Tory MPs struck a partisan note.