Suella Braverman probably has a perfectly reasonable explanation for why, having been done for speeding, she asked her civil service staff to see if they could arrange a private one-on-one...
The Tory Party knows it is sinking. You can tell not only because so many of them have already got their eye on the soon to be vacant captain’s job,...
Fearless champion of democracy Nigel Farage spent almost four full decades fighting his breathtakingly successful campaign against the “anti-democratic” European Union. If he believes in anything at all, it’s surely...
In the race to win the 2024 election, the gloves are off. The only slight problem is that, having taken his gloves off, Rishi Sunak is now punching himself in...
A pity, really, that there was no fly on the wall inside the home office meeting where it was decided that the way to deter people from risking their lives...
Ah, the referendum. The tool of populists down the ages. Can’t face the complexities of detailed policymaking? Then just boil it all down to a very simple question, a blunt...
In the modern world, when conflicts turn hot, they also turn complicated. When one country invades another, it is not uncommon for it to end up with less, not more,...
It is rare for global leaders to be photographed standing near nuclear fusion reactors, because they know that the metaphors will write themselves. Whoever made the decision to have...
The very best satire has a remarkable knack for changing absolutely nothing. Harry and Meghan were made to look so perfectly absurd by South Park’s “Worldwide Privacy Tour” episode that...
The latest rumours on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list are not clear as to whether he has offered a mere knighthood or a full blown peerage to his own dad,...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
