Crace

You’d have thought ministers would have wanted to celebrate the UK signing the Comprehensive and Progressive…

So much for holding your nerve. Rishi Sunak appears to have lost his. He looks beaten. The man who has lived his…

A zombie parliament is gonna zombie. All across Westminster, almost nothing stirs. MPs sleep in their offices to…

As a general rule you are better off keeping quiet if you haven’t got anything much to say. Better to be thought a…

January 2020: I scan the New Year’s Day edition of the Times. On page 37 there is a news in brief about a virus in…

Spare a thought for Neil O’Brien. A minister so beige, so junior, that not even his colleagues know he is working…

MondayHaving Covid was unpleasant but mercifully brief. The worst of the symptoms gone in just over a week. But…

Boris Johnson: Hello. This is not Boris Johnson.Sue Gray: In which case, I’m not Sue Gray.Johnson: Excellent. I’d…

A pale winter sun shines through my office window. I sigh deeply. Even though I am one of the most successful men…

MondayWith impeccable timing I managed to get Covid just a few weeks after the government announced that as far as…