Kemi Badenoch channels her fantasies as she launches the Tories’ local election campaign This wasn’t just a mean-spirited version of Britain, it was also positively deranged The Guardian - UK · Mar 19
Sir Jim Dim swaps being a failed grandee for new role as cabinet stooge After a period of well-deserved obscurity following a bungled leadership bid James Cleverly returns to the Tory frontbench The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2025
‘It’s great to be here’: watching the Tories turning farce into annihilation After Tory MPs send their vaguely normal candidate packing, all the rest of us can do is applaud them for their comic timing The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2024
The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour James Cleverly had been the one Tory talking a small amount of sense, so of course he lost to Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024
Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell? The woeful standard of wannabe leaders – KemiKaze, Jimmy Dimly, Honest Bob – proves the Tories’ masochistic need to be abused The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024
In search of clout in Tory race, Jimmy Dimly brings on the Shappster There is still fun to be had in Westminster as James Cleverly and Kemi Badenoch kickstart their leadership campaigns The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2024
Finding Labour a bit dull? Fear not, the Tory fun factory is gearing up again And the best news is, the leadership contenders can no longer do any harm to anyone but themselves The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2024
The power of Rish! All this self-inflicted damage takes a level of slapstick genius The gambling saga might have been a three-day scandal. Instead he’d let it rumble on until he was almost on his knees The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2024
It’s Jimmy Dimly again for Sunday’s TV interviews as Hunt for Jeremy goes on Just when you’d expect the Tories to be gearing up for one final election push, their big beasts have gone missing The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024
Jimmy Dimly shows us how to serve by fronting up latest Tory gimmick Home secretary sent out to explain why national service is a great idea that has nothing to do with luring Reform voters The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2024
Rish! cowers in No 10 as mob demands peace in lawless London Prime minister suffers acute fear and loathing whichever side of the looking-glass he chooses to live in The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
Don’t worry, little people. Nicola Sturgeon can run this Covid inquiry for you What about these missing WhatsApp messages? Who better to decide what is relevant than the former first minister herself? The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2024
Jimmy Dimly lights our way to the glorious gospel of Rish! The home secretary, faithful apostle of an unerring PM, imparted new principles of truth for a new year to his doubtful listeners The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024
Rwanda bill has Tories outcompeting each other to new levels of insanity Not even the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm can rein in MPs’ fervour to trample over the international law The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023 Jimmy Dimly pretends he’s serious about fantasy Rwanda treaty Home secretary manages to keep straight face as he claims government is not ‘in search of easy answers or quick publicity’
The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2023 Sunak and his useful idiots pile reset upon reset in race to oblivion Sent out to front up on immigration, James Cleverly claimed the old plan had been nothing to do with the PM
The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2023 Let off lightly on migration, Cleverly is brought back for a sorry farce Jimmy Dimly was prepared only to apologise for things he hadn’t said – how dare anyone doubt his word
The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2023 James Cleverly lines up with post-truth brigade on Rwanda shambles Any uncomfortable facts can simply be airbrushed out of history by an act of parliament, Jimmy Dimly reveals
The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2023 The Great Jimmy Dimly does the real diplomatic donkey work – in his dreams The foreign secretary, James Cleverly, claims he’s making a difference in the Middle East but barely has a walk-on part
The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023 Rishi Sunak excels in his summer job of making Tories look unelectable PM’s autumn agenda will be one of desperate hope after months of one bad headline after another
The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2022 Is there no end to Tory MPs’ sexual misconduct? A member caught watching porn on his phone in the Commons joins the roll call of members accused of shameful behaviour