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Brexit lies in tatters but one of its key architects, Michael Gove, has been made editor of the Spectator. Here’s why he’s Paul Marshall’s perfect pick

Arguments for trail hunting merely come from wishful thinking motivated by a romanticised view of country life

The Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate has put Trump on the back foot by pointing out his weirdness. Would this approach have the same effect on Farage?

Baseless rumours about the PM, Lord Alli and a court order are a right wing fantasy fuelled by grifter ‘journalists’ and social media

Tory MPs are worried by the former trade secretary’s gaffe over maternity benefits

The former Tory PM had no idea what he was doing on Europe. If the present PM hasn’t learned from the mistakes of the past, he is doomed to repeat them

The PM would prefer a Harris victory, but snubbing the Republican would have been dereliction of duty

Instead of being shamed and forgotten, the former Tory minister is quids-in as new editor of the Spectator

Ministers are kicking back over Freebiegate, but Fleet Street loves nothing more than a story that runs and runs

The prime minister must stop giving the media the chance to go into frenzy or outrage mode

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

Claims of ‘proof’ that foreign workers cost Britain more than they put in are nebulous in the extreme

With readers increasingly moving away from newsprint, the format’s future could be in jeopardy

The double whammy of losing the fuel allowance and the hike in first-class post will lead to far fewer cards being sent and received this year

The surprising origins of The Prisoner of Zenda, the ultimate swashbuckling tale of derring-do

Seventy years ago at White City, a thrilling 5,000 metres established the concept of live televised events beamed across the continent

The Tory papers are relishing the chance to bash Labour. But with sliding circulations and their pals out of power, are they still relevant?

The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

Farage’s party are a bunch of deluded dogwhistlers, but here’s the rub: they could actually win the next election

What the right wing papers and the far left think doesn’t matter, but a hurting public’s judgement counts

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

Ben Whishaw delights his fans, but the yawnometer goes off the scale

No, we’re not living in a socialist dystopia as the Telegraph’s Simon Heffer claims - and nonsense like this is making the Tories unelectable

In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”

Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble

A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m

The Noel Coward play that became a hit film gets a new lease of life