Liz Truss and her team are taking us for a ride From fracking happy Jacob Rees-Mogg to Nadhim Zahawi and his warm horses, the Tory top table is beyond parody The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022
The BBC axing my show was in very poor taste The broadcaster would rather screen seven sex scenes than my finely honed jokes. It’s a national disgrace The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022
Pity poor Britons playing Liz Truss’s lottery The new prime minister’s cabinet is comprised of people who were born to win, but for the rest of us, life is just a gamble The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022
How will history recall the reign of Bad King Boris? King Lear may have divided the country in two and turned it against itself but perhaps, like the outgoing Tory leader, he ‘got all the big calls right’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2022
At last, the Tories prove that Brexit has polluted the UK Having raw sewage lapping around the UK is a fitting symbol of our freedom from the tyranny of EU red tape The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022
National Trust members: get ready to choke on your carrot cake The creeping pushback against the ‘woke’ won’t stop until we’re neck-deep in deregulated dystopia The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022
The Tories’ culture war – what is it good for? The confused anti-woke brigade attack indiscriminately and the arts end up as collateral damage The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022
How much Brexit bull can a proud Brummie take? The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony tried to gloss over what a rotten country this has become. It only confirmed it The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022
Praise be to Mick Lynch, the Brexit arse made good Yes, he’s a Lexit backer, but also the best spokesman for workers’ rights and leftwing values this century The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2022
Tory death-priests have our lives in their hands Surely last week’s inferno must focus Conservative minds on the one real issue, the climate crisis – mustn’t it? The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022
Boris Johnson and a robot from Abba? Someone put out an SOS… The latest scandal involving the prime minister and a mysterious woman is beyond satire – well, almost The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022
I’m not answering my phone, in case it’s No 10 offering me a job Who’s in charge by now? Mike ‘Concrete’ Graham? A jar of Bovril with some mould in it? Morbius the Living Vampire? The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2022
Tory contempt for the arts means we face a second dark age Proposed cuts to English lit courses are symptomatic of the Conservatives’ ignorance of culture and disregard for ordinary people’s access to it The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022
Is the V&A a temple of culture or a brothel? The Conservative party’s latest £20,000-a-table function for donors at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a stain on one of our great institutions The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022 Refugees, welcome to Schrödinger’s Rwanda Priti Patel’s illogical thought experiment on asylum seekers is grist to Boris Johnson’s Brexit mill
The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2022 If anyone needs to feed the Queen’s corgis it’s me I want to enjoy the jubilee, but I am conflicted…
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2022 Sue Gray’s report is like a surrealist’s bad dream My news-muddled mind has confused the civil servant’s report with the strange memoir of a 19th-century French count
The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022 My Waterman conspiracy theory was sunk by Nadhim Zahawi’s incompetence The sad death of Minder star Dennis almost provided me with some material for this column, but the education secretary scuppered it
The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022 Was no gravestone left unturned to smear Keir? Even the dead didn’t escape Nadine Dorries’s cynical misinformation campaign
The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022 Barrel-scraper Grant Shapps is taking us for a ride The minister has ditched a lawnmower tax the EU had already axed. Is this the best you’ve got, Brexiters?
The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2022 I need Boris Johnson to remain in power until the end of August I am probably the only champagne socialist hoping he hangs on, simply because I have too much good material riding on it
The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022 Why Brexit Britain is turning purple with shame The government’s catalogue of embarrassments found a perfect symbol last week in a 500-tonne mountain of rotting beetroot
The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2022 Is Nadine Dorries bird-brained or what? A 3ft-tall parrot is a harmless delight that inspires millions and costs the taxpayer nothing, so why would the culture secretary want to destroy it?
The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022 Eat your heart out Will Smith – I certainly did In landing a Legend of Comedy award, I eclipsed an Oscar winner – despite spilling mango chutney all down my shirt