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The former PM produced nothing but blather at the Covid inquiry

A resignation speech by a former home secretary who didn’t resign, and a Prime Minister’s Questions for a PM who is barely in charge – welcome to another day of government dysfunction in Westminster

Being “Tory Lite” will do him no favours at the next election

It was a disaster for Johnson, and revealed the complete dysfunction at the heart of his government

Why does the newspaper continue to publish Larry Elliot’s Corbynite nonsense on the EU?

Our legal system is one of the few remaining checks holding government to account - no wonder pundits and politicians attack it

In terms of reflecting an idealised portrait of Britain, this year’s series has to have been, at best, troubling

The Labour leader’s love of EU anthem Ode to Joy has caused faux outrage.. and hopes that he might just be a Rejoiner after all

Philosophers have rarely written about swearing - until now

Boris Johnson’s bluster and Partygate brought national shame. But the Covid inquiry is a source of national pride

The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?

If Sunak can’t be a credible leader for the Tories, then they will find someone who can

Scotland will flourish as a member of the European family, while England tragically continues thinking it's exceptional

What would you buy Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer for Christmas?

The British Museum should be a place of cognition but it's not

Their passing has marked a sad week for the entire Labour family

We can’t make a country safe just by saying it is

Immigrants are entrepreneurial and hard working – why shut them out?

The party plan to appeal to the “yoof” vote by rebranding as the Dem Libs...

From planning laws to better skills to a proper industrial strategy, all is not quite lost for Britain

By appealing to Tory voters, Labour’s leader is merely showing how much he wants the Tories out of power

Europe's challenges with inflation requires very different weapons

The man who speaks for the City knows the bankers can’t do without Europe

More people than ever before will be able to vote in the next election but these citizens are still at risk of being ignored

The ex-PM is close to a deal with Spain on Gibraltar, while the current one sulks over Greece

The straw-clutching continues as the current and would-be prime ministers scramble for benefits of leaving the EU

He was a better politician than he ever knew

The withering contempt Christopher Eccleston's Scrooge has for the poor and homeless hits particularly hard this year

The prime minister was stung by the Labour leader's description of a "man with the reverse Midas touch"

Tetchy, thin-skinned, used to getting your own way? Then politics isn’t for you, Mr Sunak

When I was a kid, allotments were a kind of cliche: strictly for old-mannish types to potter around in. Not any more