“The economy is very much like this extremely rare and precious Ming vase… ooops!”

To anyone who knows anything about Nigeria it’s plainly obvious that Badenoch had a middle class existence when she lived there. But that’s not what she said in her maiden speech. I hope she didn’t lie to the House.

Ben Jennings on #KemiBadenoch#MaternityPay – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Robert Jenrick faces questions over funding as donor comes forward

Robert Jenrick faces questions over funding as donor comes forward

Tory leadership contender received donations totalling £75,000 from firm that was loaned money via a tax haven

I’ve not seen it yet (I know it’s on tv soon), but ‘Where the wind blows’ (Raymond Briggs) is a powerful book.

Kris Kristofferson & Miss Piggy

a man in a suit is holding a woman 's hair in his hands

Alt: Kris Kristofferson takes the ribbon out of Miss Piggy’s hair (a jokey reference to his song ‘Help me make it through the night).

Sounds like Simon Case has now formally resigned as cabinet secretary. Step one in my "sort out number 10" plan samf.substack.com/p/holding-it...

Holding It Together

Why Labour is finding government so hard

‘Bout time. Good riddance.

It’s bucketing down in Merseyside, today 😬 #rain

Munya Chawawa: ‘The end of the world is hurtling towards us like a truck!’

Munya Chawawa: ‘The end of the world is hurtling towards us like a truck!’

The ‘fastest man on the internet’ has a new show about North Korea. He talks brainwashing, how we’re all suffering from apocalypse anxiety – and why the west is the real ‘big bad wolf’