Fighting for survival? – PMQs 14th May 2025
14 MAY 2025 | OPINION
This week’s PMQs has more in it than can be covered here, because we take one key issue as our...
At the flicks – PMQs 7th May 2025
7 MAY 2025 | OPINION
Supporting Programme
Last week, Labour lost nearly 200 seats in the council elections. The PM said it meant he should go...
Forensic failure – PMQs 30th April 2025
30 APRIL 2025 | OPINION
When will the Leader of the Opposition learn that the only way to get a straight answer out of Sir...
Never apologise, never explain: PMQs 23rd April 2025
23 APRIL 2025 | OPINION
In the movie ‘Alien’, the sole survivor discovers that the monster is hiding in her escape pod. She presses buttons...
Fog of war: PMQs & ‘Spring Statement’ 26th March 2025
26 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
The PM "is not answering the question about discipline in schools … did not answer the question about compensating...
Universal exports: PMQs 19th March 2025
19 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
The Speaker began by welcoming his guest – the Mongolian parliament’s Chairman – as an observer in the Gallery.
Dashzegviin Amarbayasgalan is...
Consequences – PMQs 12th March 2025
12 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
Try asking Grok: ‘When did questions at UK PMQs cease to be spontaneous?’
For it has come to resemble an am-dram living-room script-reading...
War and peace – PMQs 5th March 2025
5 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
At Eton, they call it ‘oiling’. Half an hour in, newbie Labour MP Mike Tapp applied the grease gun ruthlessly:
"These are delicate...
Muddy waters – PMQs 26th February 2025
26 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
Starmer is turning into a doubleplusgood duckspeaker. Ask him an awkward question, get a torrent of whataboutery quacking.
Mr Speaker set him...
Nailing the jelly – PMQs 12th February 2025
12 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
The Opposition struggles to wrench itself free of the Conservative Party’s lamentable record over the past years and remains vulnerable...