Have all the jobs from which he’s been sacked for lying, all the mea culpas in the various marital homes, not prepared him better for this moment? Arguably, it’s...
At the end of four full months of investigation, at an estimated cost of £560,000, and having issued 126 fines, five of which went to just one person, the Metropolitan...
Tom Peck, The Independent Turn down the sound in Court 13 and stare upon its cold stone walls; its towering leaded light windows; its ornate oak panelling and...
Can it really be just three months since Owen Paterson left, in his own words, the “cruel world of politics”? It’s hard to recall precisely how cruel the world...
As we stare down the barrel of yet another horrific global catastrophe, it feels as if we are in that now-familiar phase in which there is a knee-jerk reaction of...
“I cannot think of a time in international affairs when the difference between good and evil, between right and wrong, has been so obvious,” said Boris Johnson, standing behind a...
It is unfortunate that Boris Johnson’s plan to declare the end of COVID should have coincided with Her Majesty The Queen, aged 95, testing positive for the disease. Is...
Before Liz Truss’s visit to Moscow, the question had been asked, several times, what exactly would be the point of it? The answer to that question was very quickly made...
Boom. Boom. Two horrific blows, one after the other. Both on their own would be enough to knock out a man with even a nanogram of shame left in his...
It has been a dark day for Facebook, in which a major news organisation — The Atlantic, owned by Steve Jobs’s widow — published the first in a series of...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
