Hungary’s leader and Fox News are natural bedfellows in peddling paranoia politicsTucker Carlson is not much to look at. A little man with a face screwed into the scowl of a junior manager passed over for promotion, you might walk by him in the street …
The liar, the witch and the wardrobe – cartoon
Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and the Conservative party give their own take on Narnia• You can order your copy of this cartoon Continue reading…
Migrant website set up by Home Office decried as ‘unethical’
Site offering supposedly independent advice is part of a £23,000 government social media campaignThe Home Office has been censured for setting up a website that purports to provide independent advice to migrants considering travelling to the UK – but w…
‘Bloody difficult women’: Brexit play hits the London stage
Theresa May and pro-EU campaigner Gina Miller are key characters in a new drama about Britain’s battle over EuropeThey were both called “bloody difficult women”. Yet a play opening in London in the new year will portray Theresa May and the anti-Brexit …
Apsana Begum’s court ordeal is an indictment of Tower Hamlets council | Shami Chakrabarti
We must examine the independence of local bureaucrats, and whether they can be trusted to deal with imprisonable offencesIt could have been a John Grisham novel set in the Chicago of yesteryear. Apsana Begum, Britain’s first hijab-wearing MP, was acqui…
Dear Gavin Williamson, if Latin is about levelling up, I have other ideas | Michael Rosen
Why not emulate private schools with class sizes, playing fields, music facilities and modern languages?Just as many of us are thinking ahead to winter and a possible next wave of Covid, worrying about whether schools have proper ventilation and what e…
Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson’s Thatcher coalmines gaffe– cartoon
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Anger as Boris Johnson does not isolate after staffer’s positive Covid test
Exclusive: PM continued tour of Scotland despite at times being ‘side-by-side’ with official, source saysCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson is facing mounting anger after it emerged he continued with a tour of Sco…
Alok Sharma is trying to save the world. Should he be able to fly to do it?
Experts and campaigners defend UK minister in charge of Cop26 talks amid furore over diplomatic plane tripsThe starkest warning yet on how close the global climate is to the point of no return will be delivered to the world on Monday morning, when the …
Keir Starmer calls on Boris Johnson to say sorry for coalmines joke
Labour leader says remarks about pit closures ‘utterly shameful’ and shows prime minister ‘out of touch’Keir Starmer has called on Boris Johnson to apologise for joking about Margaret Thatcher closing coalmines, describing the remarks as “utterly shame…