Lineker saga sends Tory headbangers into meltdown

A football pundit being critical of the government shows you can have too much of this free speech business

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Sharp practice? Never! BBC chair is just one of life’s natural born winners

Reluctant participant faces Commons select committee with an interest in that £800k credit facility Boris Johnson

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Rishi Sunak and his demons – cartoon

Inquiries into Partygate, Nadhim Zahawi, Dominic Raab and the BBC chairman… how does the prime minister sleep at night?

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Devoted Philp dies on his feet again defending the indefensible

After No 10’s useful idiot had failed to defend Nadhim Zahawi’s reputation, Richard Sharp was grilled in a BBC safe house

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