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The defence secretary has splashed out £192,000 on entertainment and hospitality in his first six months in office

Brexit disinterest by national politicians and media is bringing a new approach

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Chris Philp, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and more

We need Have I Got News for You and The Last Leg just as we needed Spitting Image in the 1980s – to reassure us that we aren’t all going mad

It might even be better for the Conservatives too, but I am less concerned about them than I am about Britain

Rishi Sunak, for all his public protestations, is pessimistic about whether he will be able to hang on until June

Columnist Sherelle Jacobs says leaving the EU has “spectacularly failed” - but only because we have not tried hard enough

Rachel Reeves will need to confront failures that others have ignored

Bayern Munich may have been in turmoil this season but the England striker is in the form of his life

The Independent has signed the Daily Express’s political editor, noted for his entertaining predictions

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at George Galloway, David Maddox, Lee Anderson and more

Crippling rent rises are fuelling calls to abolish landlords. But this so-called ‘easy fix’ must be resisted

Tom Baldwin’s biography of the Labour leader suggests we will see a return to serious politics if Starmer makes it to No 10

As a new series of HIGNFY approaches, its comedy is now preaching to the converted, and feels toothless in an age of virtue signalling but no virtue.

The change of heart is said to have stuck in the craw of editor-in-chief Paul Dacre

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Andy Coulson and more

Johnson superfan and “mad redhead” Lady Judith McAlpine has emerged as the instigator of the madcap scheme

Kate’s edited picture is a reminder that the truth matters

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Andrew Neil, George Galloway and more

We need a Britain that rewards hard work, where so-called tax exiles and clever tax accountants are no longer seen as heroes

The investor has served up a hateful diet of culture war and conspiracy theory at GB News. Now he’s eyeing up the mainstream Tory media

The prime minister’s speech to the nation followed a meeting with the paper’s editor-in-chief

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Lee Anderson, Kelvin MacKenzie, Boris Johnson and more

What does it say about our politics that justice is now delivered via TV dramas?

An issue as serious as the Israel-Gaza war got lost in arcane parliamentary semantics

The right wing media has finally woken up to the fact that nothing in Britain works. Now they can’t wait to pin it all on Starmer

The US media seemingly cannot resist even the most obvious of bait when it is delivered by the Republicans

He may make it Labour’s problem when they come into office

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Kemi Badenoch, Daniel Hannan, the New Statesman and more

I'm starting to think the Tories are heading back, not a day too soon, into opposition

New by-election defeats have put Sunak under pressure. But the flaws of his likely successor suggest she would be another disaster for the Tories