When John Crace met his Waterloo Brief letters: Paintings in parliament | Keighley’s finest | Taking the water | Spot the lawnmower The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2025
The death of your dog is hard to bear Letters: Readers respond to John Crace’s column about the loss of Herbert Hound and share their own experiences The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2025
Digested week: Mum has died and my dog has cancer. I skipped World Happiness Day Trump may have dumped Farage, and Musk has lost $100bn off Tesla’s share price but can’t I even enjoy the schadenfreude The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2025
Soon Keir will be replaced by a sad, automated voice. Will we notice? Starmer is banking on AI to save him. It’s not as if other technologies have had unforeseen consequences, is it? The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2025
Liaison committee day. This was Keir Time. He’d dreamed of it for most of his life Being asked about what he has been doing is Starmer’s idea of fun. There’s nothing he likes more than going on and on about himself The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2024
Guardian and Observer charity telethon drives donations beyond £500,000 Journalists including Marina Hyde, John Crace and Polly Toynbee took donations from generous readers during our annual charity appeal telethon The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2024
The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate Marina Hyde, John Crace and Simon Hattenstone are among those ready to take your calls to raise money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2024
KemiKaze her own worst enemy after another scattergun PMQs Tory leader’s aim is as wild as her temper as she sets up Starmer’s rejoinders before madly demanding he resign The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024
The gospel according to Boris Johnson: it’s the church’s fault our kids are overweight The ex-PM opines that it’s Anglicanism’s failure to spiritually nourish children that has made them junk food addicts The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024
Elon Musk and a mass petition want a new UK election. Shall we do that – or just stick to democracy? I know many are aggrieved with Starmer and co, but scrapping a government for Elon and a Shropshire publican seems like a stretch, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2024
Is it time for another general election? I mean, it’s been four months The sense that anything you don’t like can be cancelled is gaining ground everywhere, as Starmer finds out The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024
Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars In the aftermath of Trump’s victory, the ad already looks like a period piece. But aside from that – I mean, seriously? says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024
Spare a sob for Don Jr – replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk This least deserving of nepo-babies struggles at the best of times to catch Trump Sr’s attention – and now the world’s biggest billionaire is in the way, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024
Allison, I know the world is killing you – but where did it all go wrong? Somewhere along the way Pearson lost her sense of humour and now finds herself at the centre of a storm The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024 To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the problem The cringeworthy campaign for Harris made it clear – voters aren’t simply going to do what mega-rich celebrities tell them to, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024 Digested week: Snail’s pace payments, a dodgy knee and gullible hounds As the Post Office Horizon inquiry ends, Gary Lineker aside and Donald Trump makes some mad picks
The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024 Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: any lessons learned from Trump 2.0 will be immediately forgotten The whole horror show seems so predictable now, doesn’t it? Just like it did the last time, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2024 Congratulations, your serene highness: Starmer, Farage and Lammy call Trump The PM offers warm compliments, Farage a trip to Clacton, and the president-elect tries his best to remember them both
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2024 Badenoch plucks Patel, Jenrick and Stride from the Tories’ tiny gene pool of talent James Cleverly has the right idea – sit tight until the new leader of the opposition crashes and burns of her own accord
The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024 Rachel Reeves’s budget survives contact with reality – for now The chancellor, on the morning-after media round, just scraped a no-score draw despite a pervasive sense of unkept promises
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024 Reeves offers few laughs and no great surprises in budget speech – but austerity it isn’t The chancellor played to packed Labour benches as the party relished its first budget in 15 years
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024 From PMQs with love: Dowden says a fond farewell to his rivalry with Rayner Olive Unplugged is a change for the better as he sends one last billet-doux to his favourite sparring partner
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2024 Tories feign innocence as Labour give more prisoners early release Tough-on-crime brigade look scarce as convicts win a break from crumbling prison system
The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2024 Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one The great and good of US media and politics can’t decide if the lavish giveaway is unethical or illegal, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024 Honest Bob Jenrick won’t sleep until everyone sees he’s the maddest person in the room The Tory leadership hopeful believes that if he shouts the same things a bit louder, everyone will eventually come round to his way of thinking