We really have reached the point where a bunch of monkeys with typewriters and handcuffs would have a sporting chance of randomly doing better than this

If there is a worse managed, more utterly useless and wrong-headed institution in British public life, I have no idea what it is

Congratulations to Morten Morland / Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times for receiving a high commendation in The #PressAwards Cartoonist of the Year category

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Showbiz Reporter of the Year category winner Rosamund Urwin and Charlotte Wace / The Times and The Sunday Times and Sunday Times

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Foreign Reporter of the Year category winner Louise Callaghan / Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year category winner Decca Aitkenhead / Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year category winner Hadley Freeman / Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Sunday Newspaper of the Year category winner The Sunday The Times and The Sunday Times

Please, never change. Internal disputes are part of politics and thus part of democracy. Yours, the Press.
'Starmer has always been intensely frustrated by Westminster’s preference for litigating internal disputes via the press' The Times and The Sunday Times

Times Radio Matt Chorley Tim Shipman Lara Spirit The sensible way to watch PMQs, and the only people who disagree are fools, and very possibly communists.
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Listen to EMQs Political Currency this week - great questions from our listeners, who it turns out include David Gauke Tim Shipman and Christopher Hope📝

Very few people in Spad world have seen and endured more than Cameron, while retaining the respect of ministers and hacks alike. A loss for both sides…

Tip of the hat to departing Treasury spad Cameron Brown after one hell of a mad slog.

One of the best in the business and a gent to boot.

My favourite over the years... 'We don't comment on Budget speculation but you'll look like a twat on Wednesday if you write that.'

📢We're looking forward to welcoming Tim Shipman Tim Shipman, best-selling author of political blockbusters All Out War and Fall Out, to Foyles next month for a conversation with Matt Chorley about Shipman's latest book of revelations: No Way Out.
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Over the last four years, Hilary Cass has conducted the most robust review of the medical evidence for transitioning children that's ever been conducted. Mere hours after it was released to the press and public, committed ideologues are doubling down. 1/6

Exciting to finally get a copy of No Way Out, the third part of my quartet on post-Brexit British politics. Publication day is 25 April. The concluding part is out on 20 June. You can preorder both here lnkfi.re/oCRrDT

This is important research, and it ought to spark a serious debate. But too many people in positions of authority and influence are too wedded to their own political assumptions, or too afraid of threats against them, to discuss this honestly. x.com/jamesjohnson25…

As Orwell said, 'To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle'. In daft times, it becomes even more essential and even plain truths must be repeated over and over again. As here 💪

This is an extraordinary piece of investigative journalism by Gabriel Pogrund and team.

Recommended reading 👇

This. Is. Magnificent.