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The government is failing at everything apart from record levels of gaslighting

Why else back a prime minister who trails in the last eight polls by an average of 19 points?

Until our broken electoral system is fixed, we need to play Westminster at its own game

Bringing an end to the Tories' real-life psychodrama could finally give satirists something to work with

A former top civil servant in the government’s digital unit: “It’s not a question of whether there will be another Horizon. It’s when”

The election campaign has begun in earnest and it is not going to be pretty

I’m old enough to remember what life was like before the generality of houses and flats were centrally heated – and now I’m experiencing it again

The Brexit benefits the government promised continue to be elusive

Where is the “integrity and accountability” the prime minister promised?

If the UK wants to remain a top-tier military power, we need to pay the price

The Tories have denied responsibility for every scandal and disaster that has blighted their calamitous 14 years in power. So whose fault is it, exactly?

A new report shows red wall areas suffering more from Brexit than London does – and it will get worse

We have a media that seems to shield the government from accountability while at the same time attacking those seeking to scrutinise it

The government’s time is running out

As a poll shows Conservative voters prefer Nigel Farage to Rishi Sunak, the PM’s only hope looks like being a split within Reform UK

For the sake of our souls, the idolisation of “business” must end

Mandrake hears the British Museum is struggling to find a suitable candidate for the role

If he gets his own way, the PM will cling on until the very end

Companies don’t want to list in Britain any more. It’s obvious why

Years of political turbulence, economic shocks and the failure to ‘level up’ as pledged have turned English devolution into a key political and constitutional issue

The referendum's double-edged tropes of the passionate Brexiteer and the grieving Remainer may not be quite so simple

All the sub-postmasters must be exonerated, but the PM’s virtue signalling will do more harm than good

The prime minister’s legacy looks even worse with his illogical energy policy

It's obvious that the pressure is getting too much for Rishi Sunak

The show is compelling, but it is rooted in mistrust, selfishness and bias

Frances Barber is brilliant as a deranged conspiracist in Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend

London's mayor has broken the omerta, and politics is the better for it

They have built a system that rewards mendacity, corruption and greed

A session overshadowed by the Horizon scandal was brightened by the "brilliant Brexit bonus" of the discovery of some new clams

Rishi Sunak has the same cavalier attitude towards the truth as his predecessor

The 1970s was an era as filthily culpable as any other and its only redeeming feature was the cheapness and availability of sherbet lemons