Ian Dunt

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• Week in Review: Clinging to reality under a post-truth government

  How to stay sane when everything gets weird.

• Johnson's nightmare: This is not how it was supposed to go

  His brothers resignation and a disastrous press conference add up to another awful day for the new prime minister.

• Checkmate: Labour rejects Johnson's election gambit

  The PM's attempt to force an election has failed. SO what happens now?

• Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal

  Boris Johnson was the first prime minister to lose his very first Commons vote since 1894, after a night of high political drama.

• Lies, threats and deja-vu: Johnson opts for Theresa May's No.10 statement gambit

  A long wait, fevered speculation, and then nothing changes. The prime minister keeps emulating the predecessor he did so much to undermine.

• Week in Review: The battle against Tory Leninism

  The game hasn't really changed, not since the summer of 2016. It just keeps getting worse.

• Prorogue: The government takes its shot

  After months of threats and bluffs to cancel parliament so Boris Johnson can force through no-deal, the plan is finally revealed.

• Week in Review: The UK goes full Basil Fawlty

  Boris Johnson's trip to Europe somehow managed to be both obsequious and uncivil.

• Week in Review: Greta refuses to know her place

  What is it about this confident, idealistic young woman which so enrages old reactionary men?

• Psychological warfare over no-deal masks a strategic vulnerability

  The reality is MPs have several ways to stop no-deal, but opponents are trying to terrorise them into inaction.

• Week in Review: The coming storm

  When Mps get back from their summer holiday, it's all going to hit the fan in a rather comprehensive way.

• Week in Review: The Remain alliance claims its first scalp

  Crucial byelection win provides proof-of-concept for a broader electoral campaign.

• Week in Review: Brexit deja-vu - but with messier hair

  The calls for optimism, the attacks on enemies and the threats to the EU: We've seen Boris Johnson's plan before, and it didn't work.

• Johnson's time as prime minister starts with a nationalist slur against his critics

  Boris Johnson's first speech outside Downing Street suggests things are about to get ugly.

• May exit report: A terrible premiership with little to recommend it

  It feels churlish to be too snide when a prime minister is departing, but there is very little positive to say about Theresa May's record.

• Boris Johnson: The next human sacrifice to the Brexit machine

  The only question is: Which of his promises does he break first?

• Week in Review: Something grim rises from Trump's rally

  'Send her back': There's a bleak echo of history as the rhetoric around Donald Trump deteriorates, but will the UK catch the disease?

• First blood: Parliament blocks Boris Johnson's plan to sideline it

  Dramatic vote in parliament sees MPs successfully fight off threat of prorogation.

• Revealed: Letter shows UK govt indifference to European voters

  After countless European citizens were disenfranchised, letters reveals government's shambolic handling of their voting data.

• The trade remedies problem: Brexit no-deal plan in disarray

  Reports emerge of under-skilled staff, confusion, and hatred of criticism in department with key role under no-deal Brexit.