4 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Scary Bridget is good at only one thing

You can understand that the Kremlin might, at initial glance, mistake Ms Phillipson for a tough. 'Scary Bridget' does look and sound terrifying. Her upper lip curls like a piglet's tail.

Politics

4 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Like the Leyland Sherpa van in The Spy Who Loved Me, Jonathan Powell seems indestructible

QUENTIN LETTS: Parliament at its best: that's what Sir Keir Starmer keeps saying about Westminster's response to the Trump crisis.

Politics

4 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS on PMQs: Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clung to each other like two shipwreck survivors

QUENTIN LETTS: Water has stopped lapping against the bows. Westminster is becalmed. Thanks to Trump no one knows what to think, what to say, whom to attack.

Events

6 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: As chief stooge in this drama, JD Vance plays Smee to Trump's Captain Hook

At this rate we may need more smelling salts. Urgent signal to quartermasters: sal volatile stocks dangerously low, please resupply soonest.

Politics

7 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS from Westminster: Jutting out his Buzz Lightyear jaw, Keir Starmer got louder cheers from the Tories than his own side

Twenty-two years ago some of us watched Tony Blair being cheered more by the Tories than by his own MPs as he lured us to war in Iraq .

Politics

1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi's good wishes for Starmer's US visit were the sort of thing you say to a 2nd XI gladiator off to face the Circus Maximus lions

Poor old Starmer was plainly dreading his trip to Washington to see Dr Strangelove and chums. He began PMQs by honking 'this afternoon, of course, I will travel to the US'.

Politics

1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: From Kinshasa to Bogota, bosses of Mercedes dealerships and the better sort of brothel were inconsolable!

The penny has dropped. Actually, make that 600billion pennies. Sir Keir Starmer came to the Commons before lunch to say he was chopping overseas aid almost in half.

Economics