Matt Withers
25 April 2024
Rats in a Sack: Fan crafts a poem for GB News' Grimes
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Jonathan Gullis, Carole Malone, Nadine Dorries and more
Read the full article24 April 2024
PMQs review: Bad stand-up for the stand-ins
Not even bringing Angela Rayner off the subs’ bench can liven up a dull session
Read the full article18 April 2024
Rats in a Sack: Tory MP Afriyie's smoking gun
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Reform UK, Andrea Jenkyns, Liz Truss and more
Read the full article17 April 2024
PMQs Review: Dame Andrea serves up waffle
The Conservative MP posed a completely baffling question about Angela Rayner's tax woes
Read the full article11 April 2024
Rats in a Sack: Author Horowitz's novel approach to spoiling son
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Rishi Sunak, Nigel Farage, Ukip and more
Read the full article04 April 2024
Rats in a Sack: Greg Hands starts a political bun fight
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Chris Philp, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and more
Read the full article21 March 2024
Rats in a Sack: The GB News pundit and the puppet PM
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at George Galloway, David Maddox, Lee Anderson and more
Read the full article20 March 2024
PMQs Review: The vanishing woman finally emerges
Penny Mordaunt was back on the Conservative front bench days after she was placed at the centre of a plot
Read the full article14 March 2024
Rats in a Sack: RIP Ronnie, the MP for fetishes
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Andy Coulson and more
Read the full article13 March 2024
Sunak could have shut down Hestergate at PMQs. Instead, he said he was pleased to have a racist’s support
Another outing of unforced errors and whataboutery shows the prime minister is politically inept
Read the full article07 March 2024
Rats in a Sack: Michelle Donelan pens some expensive fiction
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Andrew Neil, George Galloway and more
Read the full article29 February 2024
Rats in a Sack: Does One Nation Penny back He Stands Up For Me Lee?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Kelvin MacKenzie, Boris Johnson and more
Read the full article28 February 2024
PMQs Review: The ghosts of Truss and Corbyn haunt Sunak and Starmer
Leaders clash over their predecessors as Hoyle teeters on the brink of losing control
Read the full article22 February 2024
Rats in a Sack: Truss bags the backing of Hugh Janus
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Kemi Badenoch, Daniel Hannan, the New Statesman and more
Read the full article21 February 2024
PMQs Review: Sunak struggles in the shadow of Kemi
The PM is the only person in Britain who’s not noticed Badenoch wants his job
Read the full article15 February 2024
Rats in a Sack: Badenoch's issue is Gove, Actually
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Nadine Dorries, Andrew Bridgen, Rishi Sunak and more
Read the full article08 February 2024
Rats in a Sack: Is Holly Valance a harbinger of doom for the PopCons?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at News UK friendly fire, a new Tory deputy chair, Schnapps with Shapps and more
Read the full article07 February 2024
Sunak is incompetent. But what if he’s also inhuman?
The PM’s callous ‘joke’ in front of Brianna Ghey’s mother is a new low
Read the full article01 February 2024
Rats in a Sack: Is Stanley Johnson a Rejoiner?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Ukip, Chris Heaton-Harris and more
Read the full article31 January 2024
PMQs Review: Phil in your own headline here
This week's Commons match-up was dominated by an Iceland worker from Warrington
Read the full article25 January 2024
Scotland and the EU: an interview with the SNP’s independence minister
A “yes” to independence would also mean “yes” to Brussels
Read the full article24 January 2024
PMQs Review: Things can only get worse
It might not looks like it, but everything is going great, Rishi Sunak reassured the Commons at today's prime minister's questions
Read the full article17 January 2024
PMQs Review: Did you know Keir Starmer was a lawyer?
The election campaign has begun in earnest and it is not going to be pretty
Read the full article10 January 2024
PMQs Review: Questions for Mr Nobody
A session overshadowed by the Horizon scandal was brightened by the "brilliant Brexit bonus" of the discovery of some new clams
Read the full article01 January 2024
The Brexit collapse
The majority of British voters now see the decision to leave the EU as a national disaster
Read the full article27 December 2023
Sunak axes plan to return to imperial measures
Rishi Sunak has dealt a blow to nostalgic Brexiteers by scrapping plans to reintroduce imperial measurements
Read the full article26 December 2023
Game of thrones: how toilet graffiti is 'the original social media'
A new exhibition celebrates a long-running but uncelebrated movement
Read the full article20 December 2023
Liars of the year: Our rundown of the terrible pork pies that disgraced and degraded public life in 2023
After holding off some formidable competition, Michelle Mone has claimed the coveted title of The New European’s Liar of the Year for 2023
Read the full article13 December 2023
PMQs Review: Mr Sunak really is very bad at politics
As he spoke, his backbenches could barely bring themselves to cheer
Read the full article13 December 2023
Balls-up for a jungle snake: Nigel Farage's Celebrity odyssey
On I’m a Celebrity, Farage failed to emulate the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls by reinventing himself as a cuddly media personality
Read the full article11 December 2023
All hail Nigel the Third, if we really must
The former Ukip leader made it to the I'm A Celebrity final but failed to wear the crown
Read the full article10 December 2023
Jungle viewers get full outline of Farage's Windsor Framework
As I'm A Celebrity draws to a close the former Ukip leader donned his spandex shorts
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