Simon Carr
The Independent's parliamentary sketch writer and columnist since 2000, Simon Carr was described by Tony Blair as "the most vicious sketch writer working in Britain today". "Poison," said Charles Clarke. In the 1980s he helped launch The Independent, and was a speech writer for the prime minister of New Zealand from 1992 to 1994. His working principle is "Indignation keeps us young."
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The Sketch: A new coalition in the making
16 March 2012 12:00 AM
Cute exchange between an easy, patrician Chuka Umunna and the questing turtle that the Business Secretary has become. It's old and new. Youth and age. Nouvelle Labour and Zimmer Socialism.
The Sketch: Harriet sent packing as Clegg rises to occasion
15 March 2012 12:00 AM
PMQs – now with 20 per cent extra. It started on time and the Speaker eventually called off the half-hour at 12.37. Every time Nick Clegg thought he'd done the course, another name was called: the finish line receding with every step he took.
The Sketch: Labour cries 'outrage' but could it be they started the slide toward privatisation?
14 March 2012 12:00 AM
It's a constitutional outrage, a violence against the people, a forerunner of the apocalypse, oh let us discard party politics, let us forget our low tribal allegiances and rise together into the life-enhancing ozone of the national interest and please, please (some sobbing in the public gallery) abandon the Bill.
Simon Carr: Victory for gentle George ... and sighs of relief from my hat
13 March 2012 12:00 AM
The Sketch: Not a knockout blow on foreign policy, but the punches landed
09 March 2012 12:00 AM
The Sketch: Labour's extraordinary strategy to be more ordinary
08 March 2012 12:00 AM
The Sketch: Left and Right havecompletely lost the plot
07 March 2012 12:00 AM
Simon Carr: Laughing at one's self is not much fun for the rest of us
06 March 2012 12:00 AM
The Sketch: So, Mr Yates, isn't the price of lobster linguine criminal?
02 March 2012 12:00 AM
The Met may have relied too heavily on Murdoch's willingness to incriminate itself
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- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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