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The comic actor said he’d never join a club that would admit him. Will Liz Truss apply the same rule to Macron’s new European forum?

We may be living a dog's life. But, when left uncared for street dogs are far from docile. The government needs to watch out

Chef James Murray from Mr Murray's Scotch Eggs presents his Bury black pudding scotch egg

The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans

What better way to fund the ailing NHS than open it up to commercial sponsorship? Comedian MITCH BENN suggests some policies we should be glad the chancellor left out of his mini budget

Kwasi Kwarteng's budget is so economically unsound that it makes you wonder if Liz Truss is secretly working for the Bring Back Boris campaign

Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget has environmentalists seeing red as the Truss government alienates yet another sector

Michael Winterbottom's telling of Boris Johnson's pandemic begs the question: when is the general public ready to consume recent real-life events on screen?

Keir Starmer and allies fear Tory ‘scorched earth’ diplomacy will leave them with a mountain to climb if they take power

A hit almost a decade ago, this production now feels like a joke in very poor taste

Waleed Akhtar is a writer prepared to address issues head-on and with enormous clarity and courage

The schoolboy errors in Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget have put the UK economy at risk and dealt the PM a self-inflicted blow from which she may not recover

If she is soon to be rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords, now may not be the time for people to go trawling through what she's been saying over the years

Only a few months ago, The Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday were protesting against the “fat cat” bosses of water and energy companies. Now they've changed their tune

The former chancellor hasn't given up his dream of becoming PM as the country heads into economic turbulence

The new prime minister and her husband are used to swankier food and drink than that served in Downing Street

Business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg’s new Brexit Freedoms Bill claims replacing or repealing all retained EU laws will bring unfettered growth. It’s dangerous and untrue

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have turned Britain into a giant experiment to test out the riskiest of trickle-down fantasies

Many of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans are detailed in an economically illiterate pamphlet they published 10 years ago this month

Liz Truss has entered Number 10 wanting to change government. This time may be better spent on some reflection

Our society needs a more measured approach, writes one reader

Will King Charles III insist on royal protocol and privilege or will his reign breakaway from tradition?

This dessert from Tom Kerridge makes for a comforting end to a meal. What's more, you can bake it in support of the chef's commitment to slashing prices during the cost-of-living crisis

This production challenges politics, our values and the dystopia we are beginning to call normal with style and intelligence

It's a show filled with obvious and patronising themes. In trying to take on too much, it feels almost punitively long

Red tape continues to frustrate small businesses as the hunt for the sunlit uplands goes on

Drakeford has been quietly effective in Wales. Now I've spoken to him, it's clear to see why

He wasn't happy about choosing between taking his researchers or his relatives into Westminster Hall with him

Mary Dejevsky, who wrote a piece in The Independent headlined “Putin should have been invited”, believes so

Labour’s leader is perceived to be sitting on his hands over Europe. But private discussions with European leaders tell a different story

Comedian MITCH BENN envisions what people would've sung as they queued to see Queen Elizabeth lying in state