Matt Withers
29 November 2023
Hairdryers, handcuffs and Dr Death: what we’ve learned from the Covid inquiry so far
With Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak set to face difficult questions in the coming days, here’s a recap of the inquiry’s findings up to now
Read the full article28 November 2023
Farage loses an election – again
The former Ukip leader dealt with his failure to be elected ruler of the I'm A Celebrity camp with his customary grace
Read the full article27 November 2023
Farage goes nuclear in the jungle
The former Ukip leader gave I'm A Celebrity viewers one of the less vaunted benefits of Brexit
Read the full article26 November 2023
ITV finds something Farage is good at: drinking
The former Ukip leader’s uncanny ability to pour huge amounts of liquid down his cakehole has finally quenched his thirst for jungle screen time
Read the full article25 November 2023
Has ITV gone cold on Nigel Farage?
The former Ukip leader - who jetted to the jungle to speak to its “big young audience” - barely featured in last night’s episode
Read the full article23 November 2023
Study: clever people were more likely to vote Remain
A report has found a significant correlation between cognitive ability and voting preference in the 2016 referendum
Read the full article22 November 2023
PMQs review: Rishi Sunak taunted over NHS and Musk as Tory calls Stockton North a “shithole”
Keir Starmer focused on the prime minister’s five new priorities as the Commons warmed up for the autumn statement
Read the full article16 November 2023
Political pantomime season is here
A debate on reversing Brexit is moving from the Edinburgh Fringe to the London stage
Read the full article27 October 2023
No, Daily Express, Brexit benefits are not powering our renaissance
The paper's story about the supposed economic magic of freeports is a pack of lies
Read the full article25 October 2023
10 of Rishi Sunak’s achievements since entering Number 10
Downing Street has listed some of the prime minister's achievements over the past 12 months. Here are some they missed
Read the full article24 October 2023
Steve Baker thinks Brexit should have required a 60% majority. What’s he up to?
The self-styled Brexit hard man is already setting the ground for a future referendum on rejoining the EU
Read the full article02 October 2023
Tories must be prepared to discuss rejoining EU, ex Cabinet minister tells conference
David Gauke tells his party in Manchester they are "on the wrong side of the argument" on Europe
Read the full article29 September 2023
Bogus boomboxes and fake heads: a history of spying and deception
A blockbuster new exhibition interrogates the role, purpose and cost of deceit and misdirection
Read the full article03 September 2023
The Jewish club which made German football history
Makkabi Berlin have become the first Jewish club to play in Germany's premier cup
Read the full article02 September 2023
Ash’s Tim Wheeler: ‘It’s such a pain in the arse, Brexit’
The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album
Read the full article23 August 2023
Brexit’s chilling effect on the UK music industry
Restrictions are hampering musicians' ability to work in the EU
Read the full article21 August 2023
Are Suella Braverman’s days as home secretary numbered?
Sunak has given her a vote of confidence as criticism grows and a reshuffle looms
Read the full article10 August 2023
Tobias Ellwood: ‘The single market? We will be back in a decade’
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit
Read the full article10 August 2023
Leaving the ECHR may be just talk, but it’s dangerous talk nonetheless
Rishi Sunak sees threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights as an opportunity to replay the old tunes. It is a mistake
Read the full article08 August 2023
Does Lee Anderson understand how the internet works?
The Conservative deputy chair has denied ever criticising MPs' second jobs, despite the evidence being there for all to see
Read the full article04 August 2023
Why Rishi Sunak’s warm words on farming are shameless
While the prime minister lauds Britain's farmers, the industry struggles to cope with a Brexit triple whammy of his government's own making
Read the full article01 August 2023
Liz Truss’s mini-budget hiked up the UK’s Brexit divorce bill even further
The plummeting pound saw the government book a £91 million loss
Read the full article19 July 2023
Survey: Now 58% of Leavers want closer ties with the EU
And a majority of Britons now identify as ‘European’, says poll for British Foreign Policy Group
Read the full article16 July 2023
Brexit hampered Britain and the EU’s response to the Ukraine invasion, says report
Differences meant rival diplomats were discouraged from talking to one another
Read the full article11 July 2023
Wes Streeting: ‘I can’t see a credible route back into the EU in the foreseeable future’
Labour’s shadow health secretary on Europe, class, Murdoch and his new memoir
Read the full article28 June 2023
Celebrating Ulysses, the great European novel
Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin
Read the full article23 June 2023
How Ukip came crashing down to earth
The party that scared David Cameron into offering a referendum on EU membership is now little more than an extremist husk. What happened?
Read the full article21 June 2023
The 10 biggest lies of Brexit
Seven years since the referendum, how have the “promises” made by the most prominent Brexiteers panned out? Here’s a rundown of the 10 most spectacular untruths
Read the full article27 May 2023
What the Faroe Islands want
The island nation in the north Atlantic has a bone to pick with the EU
Read the full article26 May 2023
How to tell the story of the Troubles
A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum captures the experience of everyday people who lived through the years of conflict
Read the full article15 May 2023
No, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit did not stop Putin’s Ukraine invasion from succeeding
The Conservative MP claims Brexit helped thwart Putin's Ukraine invasion. He is wrong
Read the full article23 April 2023
Mike Galsworthy: Brexit has failed and we must be ready to rejoin, step-by-step
New chair of the European Movement gives surprise backing to Labour’s cautious approach
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