Liz Truss’s tax U-turn has emboldened Tory dissenters
The party conference is a festival of discord and the next fight is brewing over plans to cut benefits.
ByMichael Gove
Michael Winterbottom’s This England is odd and oddly repellent
Kenneth Branagh has captured Boris Johnson’s striding stoop and gibbon arm-swing, but this series is perhaps too kind to him.
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Who will replace Britain’s longest-serving newspaper editor?
John Witherow has stepped down as editor of the Times. The succession pits an “old-school news hound” against an approachable,…
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The next Tory leadership contest has already begun
Those hoping to succeed Liz Truss know that they have to start planning now.
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Why we can’t blame Covid for the state of schools
Funding cuts have left us struggling for well over two years.
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The final act in the Gove-Johnson psychodrama
The pair’s unlikely political alliance began at Oxford, was cemented by Brexit and ended with one last strike of revenge.
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The Palace of Westminster is falling down, just like our political system
We are close to a real chance for reform. It is being caused not by pamphlets or seminars, but the…
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Sponsorship scheme for Ukrainians is “DIY asylum”
The government is leaving potential hosts to find a refugee themselves.
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Michael Gove’s Levelling Up plan looks suspiciously familiar
The central plank of Johnsonism has been begged, borrowed and stolen from elsewhere.
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Why Michael Gove’s cladding plan creates new headaches for the government
The principle that leaseholders shouldn’t be left out of pocket means the government may well have to pay for more…
ByGove forced to apologise over school errors
Education Secretary apologises for 25 errors in schools building programme list.
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