The Latest Breaking News from John Crace

Digested week: My cardio rehab is done, and my dog’s joint care chews are a miracle

Labour lets the Taylor Swift story rumble on, while KemiKaze, Honest Bob and Spurs just leave you feeling indifferent

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2024

KemiKaze and Honest Bob are let loose on GB News where they can’t do any harm

Badenoch fared slightly better in the TV special for the two Tory leadership candidates than Jenrick, who is the party’s very own hollow man

The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2024

Sunak has checked out, leaving Starmer looking even more startled than usual

Forget the Taylor Swift debacle or broken promises over national insurance, Rish! just wanted to ask about China

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2024

Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality

Remember when the existence of natural disasters wasn’t up for ‘debate’? It seems like a long time ago now, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024

‘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 glass ceiling for dogs had been broken!’ Herbie the cockapoo on his years working for Sunak and Starmer

While John Crace was writing political sketches for the Guardian, his dog Herbie was building a career in Westminster. We obtained an exclusive extract from his new memoir

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

Wednesday briefing: Inside Labour’s plan to move the fiscal goalposts – and tackle debt

In today’s newsletter: Rachel Reeves calculates that changing debt rules could help boost the UK economy, but what does it really mean?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024

Maybe after his book launch, Boris Johnson will leave us all alone

The publicity round for Unleashed – and its author’s need to fend off anything approaching reality – has been exhausting

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2024

Suddenly, all MPs know where the Chagos Islands are and what’s best for them

Many who last week couldn’t have got within 500 miles of Mauritius on a map now can’t bear it taking the archipelago

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2024