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6 years

Just skied from the EU into independent Switzerland. Quite disgracefully, there was no hard border. Not even a line in the snow.

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Why does Tony Blair feel the need to issue a new-year message? He is not in public office. He is not in parliament. He is not in holy orders.

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Jaded old hack though I be, am haunted by footage of Jacob Rees-Mogg and his young son being so menaced by protestors that he needed a police phalanx. This is the most polite of men, with his kid, for God's sake. Weird, bad days. And still that idiot Letwin wants delay.

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At a Tory association meeting this week in a pretty liberal part of the West Midlands, a friend tentatively said he'd vote for the Brexit party in any European Parliament elections. Brief silence. Then a show of hands as 90 per cent of th meeting (chairwoman included) agreed.

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Why on earth should Mark Field apologise? He played a blinder.

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Shortly before Christmas, Eurosceptic Tory Sir E Leigh surprised the House by expressing 'unfashionable support' for T May and saying he might support her deal. Today the same Leigh was made a Privy Counsellor. Pure coincidence.

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Sir Keir Starmer misses chance to show any generosity to departing PM. One of the most grindingly acidic speeches I have seen in Commons.

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Guido Fawkes's allegation today about Panorama today could do with a speedy response from @BBC bigshots.

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Sir Patrick 'Star Trek' Stewart calls Brexit 'the saddest, grimmest thing to have happened to me since I have been involved in politics'. Did we miss his election to public office?

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Judges blew their hallowed status with the Supreme Court ruling and will now be fair game for public scrutiny

Judges blew their hallowed status with the Supreme Court ruling and will now be fair game for...

YESTERDAY’S Supreme Court judgment against the Government was a punch to Boris Johnson’s solar plexus. Brexiteers should not kid themselves about that. Boris has been winded. But the verdict is wid…

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3 years

It may be time to straighten that knee.

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A couple who threaten to give a 'tell-all' interview to US TV might find it harder to argue that their privacy is imperilled by newspaper reporters.

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Some say that 400 MPs may have to queue 'almost a kilometre' in order to vote. Why not say 'half a mile'? It's more concise and more accurate.

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4 years

Ministers and officials think forcing people to wear muzzles will encourage them to travel and go shopping It will have the very opposite effect on me.

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5 years

'Unconsitutional' means 'against the rules' but so far as one can gather, Boris's Queen's Speech proposal is perfectly within the rules, and, er, more rooted in precedent than some of J Bercow's recent decisions.

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B Johnson is a liar - says Sir J Major, adulterer.

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Speaker Bercow has lost his voice. A nation mourns.

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Dear Lord, poor David Amess. He was the most enthusiastic, positive of presences in the Commons, never angry, usually beaming, and quite often talking about Southend. It was impossible not to like him.

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Sky's politics people have interviewed football's Gary Neville. I am going to hold out for when @SkySportsNews gives a punditry slot to Jacob Rees-Mogg. That might be better telly.

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Kenneth Clarke was one of those who insisted that MPs sit at Westminster this week. And yet no sign of him yesterday for the PM's statement.

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The MPs are too square to put her through but cool Kemi would be a blood transfusion for politics.

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4 years

You wouldn't want to play Monopoly against those bastards at Sage. They keep inventing new rules.

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6 years

Rather a draining and emotional day with the announcement that I have voted Leave from the Mail and agreed a future economic partnership with Times/Sun Times/Sun to sketch, review books and theatre and write features.

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Tory command's decision to de-suspend sex-text Tory MP Andrew Griffiths so that he can vote for the vicar's daughter is glorious. A decadence to match the last days of Rome.

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3 years

Speaker says Johnson and Co have misled the House. Quite something. Has the country has been misled too?

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1 year

Poverty campaigner prangs his £0.7 million motor car.

Marcus Rashford crashes £700,000 Rolls Royce after Manchester United win over Burnley

Rashford described as “shaken” after Rolls Royce was left strewn sideways across the road

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Happy birthday to this chap in the Telegraph. i like his style.

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Truss cut taxes and the IMF said 'dreadful policy!' Sunak cut the cuts and now the IMF says 'you need some tax cuts, mate'. It's a Harry Enfield skit.

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Mere hours after big scenes of celebration, barely a month since an election widely seen as a 2nd ref, the BBC website is running a prominent story headlined 'Have Britons changed their minds on Brexit?'

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6 years

Good grief, have had hate emails for my little Tweet about skiing across Swiss border. Europhiles, acidic, say this is all thanks to Shengen. Oddly, I first skied across Swiss border c.1975, pre-Shengen and pre-EU.

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Protestors outside Tory conference chanting ‘scum, scum, scum’, ‘bastards’ and various charming forms of the F word. Where are Ofcom when you want them?

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5 years

Enter Lady Hale. To some surprise she refrains from seating herself on the Throne.

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9 months

Junior Drs? My wife was with her ailing mum, 84, at local hospital, 4am. Struggling to get her off the loo, my wife put her head into the corridor and cried for help. A c.30 year-old medic said 'I'm a doctor, that's a nurse's job'. Then went back to his colleagues, laughing.

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6 years

Proud to say that both the Guardian sketchwriter and I have been barred from attending Diane Abbott's speech this morning.

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3 years

Strikingly different tone in Commons as PM gives Ukraine statement. Much more grown-up. Earlier stuff on the birthday cake now feels a bit odd.

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Chap I know, lifelong Islington-style Labour, vociferous Remainer, 65ish, not a Corbynite, is so angry at EU's treatment of Mrs May that he now wants Brexit.

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A ministerial job for Patrick Vallance. That smells a little whiffy.

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Covid lunacy: tonight's West End performance of Walden cancelled at last minute - with audience in seats - because one backstage hand tested positive. How can producers ever break even with these rules?

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4 years

One does slightly wonder what the police thought their visit to Nigel Farage would achieve.

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6 years

Good thing about this week: it has smoked out the misbehaviour of politicians (especially in Cabinet) and has laid bare to the country that, if anything, we 'cynical' sketchwriters have long under-reported the grotesqueness of Westminster.

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6 years

Talking today to Tory members and voters, it was striking that they talked of Mrs May only as a loser or liar. No one envisaged her as a winner.

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6 years

Odd name, The Independent Group, given that the one thing its first seven champs do not really support is, er, our sovereign independence.

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4 years

If Mrs Sussex is right about marrying Harry earlier than known, you wonder what Justin Welby was playing at. Did he really collude in making that church wedding a pretence?

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3 years

This twee use of 'passing' instead of 'death' is not to be encouraged, please.

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5 years

With each new word from P Hammond we understand better what Mrs May was up against.

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This morning the BBC website is offering a children's Newsround story that hedgehogs and dragonflies are at greater risk now that we have left the EU.

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Will we be spared the opinion-page piece entitled 'Why Prime Ministers need to have spotless private lives - by Sir John Major' ?

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3 years

The visiting Ukrainian parliamentarians, having arrived for a PMQs at which Angela Rayner was at her classiest, left after 20 mins. Can't blame them.

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5 years

Sir Philip Ruttnam says he urged Priti Patel to change her 'behaviours'. The plural says a lot about him.

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3 years

Claudia Webbe, professor of Afghan history.

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4 years

Yougov has done a poll on public opinion re Queen v Markle. It sounds as if the Queen is heading for a 200-seat majority.

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6 years

Mrs May's wetness on Brexit is dreary and defeatist. Hard to see how any Conservative activist can be galvanised by such a hand-wringer. Roll on a leadership challenge.

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3 years

Opposition steaming that BBC licence fee freeze being sone to 'save the PM'a political skin'. Is that a way of admitting it might, er, be popular?

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5 years

Suited London men in brown shoes: now an epidemic. Dreadful.

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Commons clerk is wearing a wig. The Bercow years really are over.

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J Bercow is apparently calling for greater 'personal courtesy' in politics. A career in comedy awaits.

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4 years

Barry Gardiner tells Commons he was 'born and bred in Glasgow'. Hang on. He went to public school in Hertfordshire!

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2 years

From what I am hearing from (a handful of) Conservative party members, any leadership contender might want to observe social distancing from Sir J Major.

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4 years

Cricket is only a contact sport when dim batsmen run in to each other. The slips stand 6 ft apart. Wickie and umpire can stand back. Players can arrive in their whites, bring their own sarnies and affix pads at one end of a bench. Exercise would be taken, morale boosted. Why not?

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2 years

It's the Krishnan show, with occasional contributions from the candidates to be PM.

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6 years

Can it be true that tonight's BBC Question Time has both Gina Miller AND Jurgen Maier, two of the biggest anti-Brexiters? That's like packing a panel with both Nigel Farage and Tim Martin.

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Soames tearful, clapped by Remainers - plenty of whom, until yesterday, happily slagged him off as a sexist snob. Ah, the hypocrisies of parliament.

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4 years

Will it be Lord Cummings? That would really fry the Europhile boobies in the upper house.

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Aren't QCs meant to tell the truth?

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Body count now worse than Midsomer Murders. But plot more like Blackadder.

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Am at the QEII centre for the launch of Gina Miller's new political party. Just as well she booked a big venue.

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Prince William's intervention is raw and remarkable...but you have to scroll down the BBC news website to find it.

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4 years

Trains (and Tubes) used to have smoking and non-smoking compartments. Perhaps we could now have mask and no-mask carriages.

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Timmermans and those vying for office in Brussels: did we miss the hustings? Why are Sky and the BBC not demanding TV debates?

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Lefty mob's nastiness to Starmer roughly on a par with that of EU loopies a few years ago to Jacob Rees-Mogg and one of his sons.

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The rancour at Westminster will abate quite a lot once there is a different Speaker.

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John Longworth and three other Brexit MEPs, including Anunziata Rees-Mogg, to do a mass resignation this morning and tell supporters to vote Conservative.

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If Patel erred with freelance diplomacy, what about Privy Counsellors Clarke, Clegg and Adonis who travelled to Brussels?

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Church turnout a quarter of last year's. J Welby's Gerald Ratner strategy has done the sort of damage Dawkins could but dream of.

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India in 1947 had rather less difficulty gaining its independence than we are having in 2017 leaving the Brussels empire. Time for Boris to go the full Gandhi.

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Dorries attacked by culture committee for describing people as leftwing - 15 mins after one of its MPs described Paul Dacre as a 'rightwing zealot'.

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The worst line in May's speech: 'The job I love.' Self-regarding, oozing entitlement. Dreadful.

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Westminster has now been a Bercow-free zone for a year.

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The strange spectacle of London liberals attacking a socially liberal Conservative PM for too-liberal penal laws created by a Labour government they all called insufficiently liberal.

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There is an answer to pub curfew: start drinking earlier.

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The more the Eurocrats praise Mrs May's 'determination', the more uneasy we should feel.

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7 years

Am chuffed to say my book Patronising Bastards - attacking our political elite - has overtaken Clegg's anti-Brexit rant in Amazon chart.

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If BBC managers and editors had decency, news sense, or even a sense of their own survival, they would be placing Prine William's comments at the top of their shodddy news website.

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One of Hereford's busiest publicans tells me his experience of the 10pm chuckout: drinkers are hosing back beer in the last 45 mins and are then going silly on the streets. He is losing £200 a night in takings. The punters think the politicians have 'lost the plot'. So does he.

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Early reaction from acquaintances suggests that the compulsory masks policy is snortingly unpopular - Boris Johnson's equivalent of Theresa May's Chequers deal.

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Am told parliament to hold inquiry into the Speakership, not least re: the Speaker's freakishly big pension entitlement, which J Bercow refused to surrender at time of financial crash.

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He's gone!

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The more that people buy tins and tins of baked beans, the more lavatory paper they may need. It's a vicious circle.

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A neighbour in her 80s with v bad heart problem broke hip in fall at home at 7pm; was found, cold and fading, at 9am by a friend who rang 999. Ambulance arrived five hours later.

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Herefordshire pub lunch today. My mother, 85, joined us. At a nearby table was our friend Joan. She is 100. Ate like a caveman.

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Just had a chat to three ladies outside Commons protesting peacefully against lockdown. One of them, c.55, gentle-mannered, was arrested the other day and kept in handcuffs for four hours.

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A friend's son, 10, plays in a Herefordshire boys' football league. If anyone shouts 'man on!' the ref blows his whistle and gives a free kick. They are told they must say 'person on'.

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C4 took care to note Tory candidates' school backgrounds. And those of C4 presenters? Guru-Murthy, Snow and Newman all privately educated. Snow and Newman are children of public-school masters - Newman's dad having taught at J Hunt's Charterhouse.

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A peerage for John Bercow may be enough to make the public support abolishing the corrupt & out-of-date House of Lords – The Sun

Bercow may be enough to finally end the corrupt, out-of-date House of Lords

THANKS to Jeremy Corbyn it could be fill-your-tiny-booties time for that bad prawn John Bercow. Former Speaker Bercow, widely regarded as a poisonous chairman of our Commons for the past decade, is…

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Dear Channel 4, my hearing isn't great but if I thought the PM just made a striking remark about 'people of colour' (as opposed to 'talent' which is what he really said) I think I would have checked it with fellow hacks.

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Tiny gesture but our household is going to boycott @Walkers_Crisps until they dump BBC multi-millionaire Lefty Gary Lineker.

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H Benn sternly demanding an impact assessment of the new deal. Hard to recall any impact assessment of his own Act, alas.

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Just counted 17 policemen, complete with machine guns and dogs, at Westminster Tube station, presumably to insulate our MPs from the public.

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Relish the high wrist action with which May loyalist Alan Duncan applauded last night's result. That's the way long-serving Soviet praesidium middlers used to clap.

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N Boles, emotional, accuses Tories of failure to compromise but the very reason May's deal has been rejected is that it is too much of a compromise.

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