If populism, authoritarianism, racism, vulgarity, misogyny and all the dismal rest of it slipped in through America’s back door four years ago, then that is how it will leave again....
Don’t want to tempt fate, but it could be turning into a historically bad week for the self-proclaimed least racist people ever. Though they have, in fairness, tempted fate...
On live television, Andy Burnham had just finished making an impassioned plea for the tiny amount of money that will be needed to spare the poorest and most vulnerable people...
It’s unfortunate to have to do this as early as the very first sentence but just so you know, the forthcoming column is nominally a work of satire. It is...
No progress, then, in the latest round of Brexit talks, with both sides blaming the other. Would you really want it any other way? How quaint to think that,...
“All political lives [...] end in failure,” once said Enoch Powell. He lived in different times, of course (the Windrush generation had not long arrived back then, instead of later...
Though life has been made miserable for most of us, it has at least been made easy for historians. Whether it is a coincidence, evidence of a higher power,...
The only appropriate reaction at this point is to stand and applaud, quite possibly even on our doorsteps, once a week. #ClapforCummings. I’ll be doing it and you should too....
Enter Rishi Sunak, for another stint as the Tories’ very own Buster Keaton. As the coronavirus house has collapsed on the government, Sunak has made it look like luck...
But for two seismic electoral events in the year 2016, the coronavirus crisis might have done more to hasten a reckoning that is as crucial as it is inevitable. ...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
