Tom Peck, The Independent News then, of the “Festival of Brexit”, first announced in 2018 by Theresa May, who didn’t vote for it. It’s got a new name, for a...
A failure of intelligence, apparently, is what’s happened in Afghanistan. It happened in Iraq too, if you recall, back in 2003 – a failure of intelligence. A failure of intelligence...
There probably isn’t a German word for enjoying the pain and suffering of a nine-year-old boy, is there? I only ask as his little face flashed up in the Wembley...
Maybe, when you’re the secretary of state for health in the middle of a pandemic; when you’ve been on the TV telling people they can only have sex within an...
It was “Ask Me Anything” with Dominic Cummings over on Substack this afternoon, which, even in these unpredictable times, is not a sentence I imagined myself writing a year ago....
‘Newsnight’s Nick Watt was pursued through the streets by a deranged mob, bellowing ‘traitor!’ in his face, for having the temerity to cover their protest’. Another long day in...
Every few years, Boris Johnson wins a large-scale electoral event, usually by miles, and a fairly sizeable chunk of the political pundit community are told to go and hang their...
Power tends to corrupt, said Lord Acton. This two line quote, the second line being “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is far more well known, a hundred and fifty years later,...
The year is 2023 and, just for the fun of it really, two nice young men with no past history of bad behaviour decide to head down to the big...
For some time now, the number one survival tip for life on what has become known around the rest of the world as Plague Island has been to listen to...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
