Cummings and Johnson are breaking down the entire notion of democratic legitimacy
We’re facing an all-out attack on the institutional and cultural architecture of the democratic system.
Week in Review: A year under a post-truth prime minister
Under Boris Johnson, the entire notion of objective truth threatens to drift away from politics altogether.
Phase one of the Starmer leadership is a resounding success
As the Labour leader goes into summer recess, he has good reason to be cheerful.
Brutal but inept: What the Grayling shambles tells us about Downing Street
A near-perfect encapsulation of how shoddy and self-harming Downing Street has become.
Week in Review: When lies and incompetence collide
Sometimes the smallest things can reveal the most.
I worry about ‘brittle’ Boris
He bangs the dispatch box during prime minister’s questions, as if following a stage direction. But there’s profound and growing sadness in his eyes.
Week in Review: Brexit finally begins
After four years of hearing how everything would stay the same, things started to change. First, parliament passed the Immigration Bill, which definitively terminated freedom of movement in law.
Johnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist
You can engineer any defiance of reality if you simply believe hard enough. What these men cannot control must simply disappear.
Covid unity is over: Poll analysis shows Brits retreating into political tribes
We went into the lockdown measures incredibly unified, but we’re dividing again on the way out.
The failure of Cummings’ British culture war
Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson were meant to be good at this. It turns out they’re not.
