John Crace

Digested week: It’s been a rough year – so thank you to our politicians for giving me plenty to write about I’ve lost count of the number of sketches I wrote from the chemo ward as Jill went through the hell of cancer treatment

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Kemi is wrong about everything. Which is almost an achievement in itself | John Crace The Tory leader’s appearance on the Today programme was sheer madness – and comedy gold

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Badenoch gives a borderline disgraceful performance at PMQs on Iran | John Crace At times like this you have to thank your lucky stars that the opposition leader is not in Downing Street

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Trump’s plan. Carry on until he gets bored. Then leave everyone else to clear up the mess. That’s his style

Reeves’s spring statement? The economy is great, don’t worry about the Middle East With no spending or fiscal commitments to offer, the chancellor kept it short, sweet and just a little tin-eared

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Er... I did say he had made the right calls. Just that he would get no thanks for doing so. What's to complain about?

After failing to win the peace prize, Trump turns his focus to Nobel prize for war | John Crace As for Keir Starmer, even when he tries to make a reasonably sound judgment he somehow ends up losing both sides of the argument

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Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages | John Crace Matt Goodwin claimed cheating, Labour’s Gorton candidate quickly fled, Keir was tin-eared and Kemi brought the comedy

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The Your Party committee election was chaos. Why break the habit of a lifetime? | John Crace As the results livestream was delayed, voters lamented: ‘Is it too much to ask for competence as well as democracy?’

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Great Kemi revival stalls again as student loans debate turns into deranged tirade | John Crace PMQs was going reasonably well for Tory leader until she began to find her own argument too worthy and started hurling insults instead

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John Crace: What The Hell Just Happened? | Wiltshire Creative The last 10 years of British politics has been one long psychodrama. The Scottish referendum. David Cameron’s surprise election win. Brexit. Theresa May. B

Tickets available for my Salisbury show on April 25. Please do come. It will be fun

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Farage kicks things off before 30 minutes of hate – and has the final word | John Crace Reform’s ‘shadow home secretary’, Zia Yusuf, launches tirade of misery that sounded more hardline and deranged as it went

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Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’ Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication

Great story from Helena Horton and @pippacrerar.bsky.social

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Nigel Farage assumes Anne Robinson role in political remake of The Weakest Link Reform UK leader snaps at reporters as he tries to maintain control over announcement of shadow cabinet

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I had never heard of Igor Tudor before today. From what I’ve learned since, I wish it had stayed that way

The makers of The Heroes Of Telemark had some... interesting ideas about what Norwegians are like.

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The Real Keir comes out fighting and turns the tables on deluded Kemi | John Crace The Tory leader thinks she has masterminded the PM’s series of crises. You could put her on a fairground ride and she would still think she was in control of where she was going

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Last few balcony seats for my Stroud show this Thursday. Please do come

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Steady Ed conjours up a Keir in his own image – complete with fake steering wheel | John Crace Miliband is one minister who doesn’t want to be PM, and is more than happy to let Starmer think he is still in control

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Revisionism the order of Labour’s day as the wagons circle around Starmer | John Crace The same cabinet ministers who failed to speak up for the PM in the morning were soon offering their undying support

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Last few tickets. Balcony seats added. My Stroud show next Thursday. Please do come

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Last few tickets. Balcony seats added. My Stroud show next Thursday. Please do come

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Romero. What an idiot

Last few tickets for my Stroud show on Thursday next week. Please do come. It will be fun

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Mr Rules hits tipping point as Mandelson proves the one mistake that can’t be undone There is a look of despair in Starmer’s eyes – and a feeling in the room that the endgame has begun

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Last few tickets for my Stroud show on Thursday next week. Please do come. It will be fun

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Labour forced into humble pie address over Mandelson disclosures | John Crace Quiet air of desperation on government benches as Peter Mandelson’s links with Jeffrey Epstein consume the Commons

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Mandy wonders where it all went wrong as Labour throws him to the wolves Mandelson tried to explain as everyone from Harriet Harman to Robert Jenrick lined up to condemn him

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No more get out clauses, no more routes back to power. Finally, Peter Mandelson is on his own Labour’s Prince of Darkness has always been reckless and greedy. The only question now is how his reckoning took so long

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