New year, not so new Rish giving the people what… As a general rule you are better off keeping quiet if you haven’t got anything much to say. Better to be thought a…
‘Everyone calls to say how marvellous I am’ –… 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…
Tories run for the hills rather than face Labour… Spare a thought for Neil O’Brien. A minister so beige, so junior, that not even his colleagues know he is working…
Digested week: no one knows if my taste will… MondayHaving Covid was unpleasant but mercifully brief. The worst of the symptoms gone in just over a week. But…
Boris Johnson’s conversation with Sue Gray in a… Boris Johnson: Hello. This is not Boris Johnson.Sue Gray: In which case, I’m not Sue Gray.Johnson: Excellent. I’d…
‘The UK is top of the mortality leaderboard!’:… A pale winter sun shines through my office window. I sigh deeply. Even though I am one of the most successful men…
Digested week: practice doesn’t make perfect for… MondayWith impeccable timing I managed to get Covid just a few weeks after the government announced that as far as…
Boris Johnson’s flimsy and feeble Partygate… On any other day, the sight of Theresa May telling Priti Patel that her Rwanda immigration environment was too…
Deeply disappointed Shapps defends honourable… Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In the end it had come down to a two-horse race between Nadine Dorries and Grant…
Boris Johnson’s best party excuse is he’s even… Finally we got some kind of explanation from the prime minister for his boozy parties at Downing Street. It turns…