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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 31, 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 30, 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 23, 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

KemiKaze lies low, letting Honest Bob talk himself into losing Tory leadership race

Robert Jenrick’s ‘slightly clearer vision’ for the Conservatives is not wowing anyone while Kemi Badenoch is being kept out of sight to stop her upsetting anyone else

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2024

One day, all matters of state will be decided through Strictly Come Dancing. That day seems near

The Saturday night staple is no longer just a dance show – it’s a battlefield, where political fights and culture wars are waged, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2024

Starmer tries – and fails – to keep up with the business in-crowd jargon

When CEOs are dangling investment promises worth billions, all other promises get burned – and any ability to speak disappears

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 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