Steve Anglesey
10 March 2024
Brexit is bad for bees… and your stomach
The UK has again approved the use of a bee-killing pesticide that is banned in the EU
Read the full article01 March 2024
Wonka fans were promised magic and wonder but got an empty warehouse. Remind you of anything?
There are remarkable parallels between the flop interactive experience and Brexit
Read the full article24 February 2024
Liz Truss is back, and her delusion knows no bounds
Sorry continues to be the hardest word as the former PM rounds on the deep state
Read the full article17 February 2024
As Britain’s bad economic news mounts, all the Brexiteers can cry is, “But what about Germany?”
Sneering at another country with problems of its own making won’t solve our own
Read the full article09 February 2024
The French have found a good use for Britain’s dead Brexit
PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign
Read the full article03 February 2024
‘No regrets’ say the Brexiteers… but here’s a small business that thinks otherwise
While Rees-Mogg and Leadsom celebrate leaving the EU, a deli owner speaks out about the extra cost of red tape
Read the full article31 January 2024
Monsieur Spade: a dark knight returns
In a bold reinvention, Sam Spade, the hardboiled San Francisco private eye made famous by Bogart, surfaces in 1960s France
Read the full article26 January 2024
As a new Tory war begins, Kemi Badenoch has let the Brexit cat out of the bag
The row over divergence from EU standards has exposed the myth of “Brexit freedoms”
Read the full article20 January 2024
The Rwanda rebellion’s collapse shows the Tory party no longer trust Brexiteers
Why else back a prime minister who trails in the last eight polls by an average of 19 points?
Read the full article11 January 2024
Sadiq Khan shows why Starmer’s Brexit caution is misguided
London's mayor has broken the omerta, and politics is the better for it
Read the full article07 January 2024
It’s right to be bitter about Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin’s knighthood
The honours system must be changed so it no longer rewards cronyism and lies
Read the full article20 December 2023
2023: The giant Xmas quiz
Gather the family around the tree and test your knowledge of the last 12 months
Read the full article17 December 2023
Michelle Mone is the new Prince Andrew after her car-crash interview with Laura Kuenssberg
A brass-necked, self-pitying display from the baroness and her husband has left their defence in tatters
Read the full article16 December 2023
Sorry, Mark Francois: This isn’t 2019 and Rwanda isn’t Brexit
The barrel-chested Brexiteer is back - but this week has shown he is now an irrelevance
Read the full article09 December 2023
What the destruction of Banksy’s Brexit mural says about modern Britain
The artwork, worth £1.4m has been taken down in Leave-supporting Dover
Read the full article02 December 2023
Brexit was all about animal welfare and nuclear subs, claim Sunak and Farage
The straw-clutching continues as the current and would-be prime ministers scramble for benefits of leaving the EU
Read the full article25 November 2023
Does Geert Wilders’s election mean Nexit is on the horizon?
Wilders promised a vote on the Netherlands’ EU membership. But the grass isn't always greener...
Read the full article19 November 2023
Is David Cameron a Brexiteer now? Of course not – and he needs to start telling the truth
The man who took Britain out of the EU can do an act of public service in his new role as foreign secretary
Read the full article08 November 2023
Grayson Perry’s portrait from the edge
Richard Ansett’s photograph of the artist at Beachy Head sums up Brexit in a single shot
Read the full article02 November 2023
The question is now when, not if, we should rejoin the EU
A new poll shows 47% want a new Brexit vote by the end of 2028
Read the full article26 October 2023
Barnier has spelled out a warning on Labour’s Brexit stance – and Starmer must heed it
‘There is no room for a renegotiation of substance’ says the EU’s former Brexit chief
Read the full article26 October 2023
Here’s why Rishi Sunak is REALLY talking about the dangers of AI
Our chancer PM is simply building up Brand Rishi ahead of his ejection from No.10
Read the full article04 October 2023
The Conservatives’ lies will tear them apart like America’s Republicans
The abiding memory of the Tories’ Manchester conference will be of a party embracing post-truth
Read the full article19 September 2023
A new plan will offer Britain “associate membership” of the EU – but will Labour jump at it?
Joining an outer tier is likely to reopen old battles over freedom of movement
Read the full article07 September 2023
Is there trouble on the Horizon for Sunak?
The Tory right won’t be happy with rejoining the EU’s science fund, or extra immigration via a new deal with India
Read the full article06 September 2023
Frozen in time: the fire and fury of Ferrari
A new photography book revels in the past of F1’s most famous team. But what would their founder make of their uncertain future?
Read the full article13 August 2023
Another round of excuses shows the government will blame everyone but themselves
Waiting lists, immigration, the economy… with this lot, it is always someone else's fault
Read the full article09 August 2023
A devastating new report on the failing economy makes a May 2024 election more likely
Think tank says Britain faces recession next year and five more years of stagflation
Read the full article06 August 2023
This Tory members’ poll on climate change offers a frightening vision of the future
Some 66% of party members think there isn’t a climate emergency at all
Read the full article30 July 2023
Two Brexit decisions that show Sunak is no longer acting in the national interest
Rejection of regular EU talks and Horizon dithering prove the PM is running scared of his party’s lunatic fringe
Read the full article01 July 2023
Why should we care what Zac Goldsmith thinks about Rishi Sunak?
The former climate minister is right about the PM’s disinterest in the environment - but he is completely discredited
Read the full article29 June 2023
Weird science: Sunak’s Horizon posturing puts his sole key achievement so far at risk
Brexiteers are back on the attack over the Windsor Framework
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