Timothy Bartel

Stupendous. Few people alive today could get so much comedic mileage out of David Hasselhoff.

Hannah's handmade sign is genius.

Cor blimey! If you changed all the first-person pronouns to the third person, this could be a Green Party activist speaking. If (When?) the Labour Party purge you, Mr Lewis, I'd think the Greens would be willing to have a word with you . . .

Excellent article, but there is no such thing as the UK Green Party - Hannah stood for the Green Party of England and Wales. The Scottish Greens are organised separately.

'Not a Goodloser' - to put it mildly! He said of the Greens, 'This kind of campaign, in different languages appealing to specific groups based on their characteristics, is unacceptable in modern Britain'. I'd call that a racist dog-whistle, but the sound of a dog-whistle is inaudible to human ears.

And a shout out to Matt Goodwin for being such a good loser . . .

Moreover, there are twelve justices on the UK Supreme Court.

As a Green Party member and activist, I am veritably *shaking in my totally recyclable boots* . . .

What really takes the biscuit is the fact that, just above their signatures, they say that their filing is 'Respectfully submitted.'

Hard-hitting, or wot?

Thought so . . .

Perhaps invidious to single out anything in this piece as especially brilliant - but the (anti-)climax to which it builds, namely the equating of Nigel Farage's narrative talent with Chaucer's, is for me the master-stroke - and *so* New Yorker.

King Ubu: episode twenty-six thousand, four hundred and forty-seven . . .

Depends on the angel . . . look up 'avenging angels' on your favourite search engine . . .

More loose-bowelled squawking from Ms Bondi, I see . . .

Agreed. Or, if you want to produce your own Franklin cover, have Franklin meting out justice instead of getting his due for committing injustice: he is, after all, a virtuous character.

And now, our sport correspondent, Steve Vladeck, reports from the latest Calvinball match in Washington, DC . . .

You're lucky the *New Yorker* editors decided to publish this piece: it lampoons them at least as much as it lampoons Gullis.

Yes, that positive approach may be the best way to help the student avert the clear omens of catastrophe on the GCSEs.

Well put.

I'm a former A-level philosophy examiner for several boards in England and Wales, and even if I were marking the GCSEs, I would fail this student.

Oxford United fan: Noooooooo!

And, as things stand, she can scarcely distance herself from Labour's lurch to the hard right on immigration.

Plausible.

Her share of the vote in the 2019 election: 79.2%; majority 28,582.

In 2024: 42.5%; majority 3,421 (over Akhmed Yakoob, Independent).

Wattle I do if I can't afford turkey??

Congratulations, Dr Turner, from a white, British, elderly, cis male with an earned D.Phil. from Oxford University, and a volunteer in wildlife conservation.

May you enjoy a distinguished career as an ecologist, or in any other field you choose.

Being attacked by Spiked is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Anyone can argue with a 'best of' (or 'worst of') list, and so many folk have a serious claim to Trump Nazgûlhood . . . so please do argue with mine.

E.g. Bessent might be worthy only of the rank of Grey-Faced Wormtongue; dreadful but not with a menacing, ruthless aura. (Like Mike Johnson.)

If Elon can use *The Lord of the Rings* for his own political purposes, so can I:

Time to announce my favourites for Trump's Nazgûl, i.e. the Nine from Mortal Men Doomed to Die . . .

In no particular order: Miller; Vance; Bondi; Patel; Noem; Hegseth; Bessent; Vought; and RFK Jr.

When danger reared its ugly head,
He turn'd his tail and bravely fled . . .