Whatever you think of Sarah Palin, she's got box office appeal
I can't imagine that Hollywood will give a fair picture of Sarah Palin in the newly-announced biopic. Any conservative politician needs a good 20 years simmering in the cauldron of artists' hatred...
View ArticlePoliticians should stop being vulgar – it is immature, impolite and so, so...
There is nothing in the world more excruciatingly embarrassing than a public schoolboy trying to swear. Except perhaps a politician trying to joke about S&M. Westminster-watchers have been treated...
View ArticleThe rise of the pseudo-idiots
There is only one thing more irritating than the pseudo-intellectual. And that’s the pseudo-idiot. We've all seen them. The Oxbridge graduates who claim to hate culture. The accountants who pretend to...
View ArticleMitt Romney and Ed Miliband both fail the radio test
Next time either of them are on telly, close your eyes and just listen – and you'll see, or hear, why neither of them have really got what it takes to be a world-beating politician. Different as they...
View ArticleThe 'Omnishambles' and the power of political language
“Omnishambles”, appropriated from “The Thick of It” by Ed Miliband to describe the Government, is not a bad word, if a bastard one. Not that anyone cares much about that these days, when there are...
View ArticleThere won't be a General Strike – the TUC has run out of steam
The protest, so far, has been extremely dignified – with no sign of any of the thuggish anarchists who hijacked the last cuts protest march on Piccadilly. Something else was lacking – fire and anger....
View ArticleDave and Ed fight for the middle: how today's cartoon was created
Here's today's cartoon and a very short film of me drawing – and commentating on – the initial pencil composition.
View ArticlePower companies are much more cautious with our money than the Government
Which of these do you think is a better deal? 1. You choose to hand over a small proportion of your income to a company that provides heat, light and a working washing machine, cooker and a hundred...
View ArticleIs Ed Miliband the last Dave Spart in the country?
Reading Bob Crow's obituaries, it's striking what an extremely old-fashioned sort of socialist he was – a last echo of Peter Sellers's Fred Kite in I'm All Right Jack. That classic pastiche of...
View ArticleNo, Andy Coulson was not 'a criminal' when David Cameron hired him
Ed Miliband says that David Cameron brought a criminal into number 10, Downing Street, and The Spectator to my surprise agrees with him. “Ed Miliband”, it declares in its leading article this week,...
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