DARK SECRETS: 2 - The Real Truth

Kemi gaslights UK with her shadow cabinet while having a laugh

How else to explain Honest Bob Jenrick winding up as shadow justice secretary?

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024

Honest Bob Jenrick won’t sleep until everyone sees he’s the maddest person in the room

The Tory leadership hopeful believes that if he shouts the same things a bit louder, everyone will eventually come round to his way of thinking

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024

‘It’s great to be here’: watching the Tories turning farce into annihilation

After Tory MPs send their vaguely normal candidate packing, all the rest of us can do is applaud them for their comic timing

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2024

The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour

James Cleverly had been the one Tory talking a small amount of sense, so of course he lost to Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2024

Is this the Tory leadership race or the seventh circle of hell?

The woeful standard of wannabe leaders – KemiKaze, Jimmy Dimly, Honest Bob – proves the Tories’ masochistic need to be abused

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2024

Moderation out and madness to the fore in the Tories’ Birmingham echo chamber

With the leadership contenders vying to out-crazy each other, it was Boris – well it would be, wouldn’t it – who outdid them all

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2024

Tories think being weird makes them interesting, but it just makes them weird

The general election loss should have given Tory leadership hopefuls pause. Instead they’re doubling down on the oddness

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024

Finding Labour a bit dull? Fear not, the Tory fun factory is gearing up again

And the best news is, the leadership contenders can no longer do any harm to anyone but themselves

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2024

No rest for the winners: business secretary rushed on to Sunday politics shows

Just 40 or so hours into his role, Jonathan Reynolds sounded much more sensible than anything we’ve heard in recent years

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024