Why we have finally stopped caring about Boris Johnson’s potential wrongdoings

If the watchdog announced an inquiry into the prime minister’s alleged misconduct, it probably wouldn’t move more than a seat or two out of the Tory column

It is a gruesome betrayal of a basic democratic precept when the voters of a country could be denied knowledge that might shape their votes (Rex)

On Remembrance Sunday comes an unbearably poignant reminder of what has been forgotten.

We choose to believe that two world wars were waged in defence of democracy. In the case of the second, it might even be the truth.

So it is that each year, on a November sabbath, the great and good, and the neither remotely great nor faintly good, parade at the Cenotaph to pay service – or lip service – to the values we supposedly hold dear, and to those who died in their name.