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It’s been something of an emotional rollercoaster news-wise this week. We were able, briefly, to draw a much needed breath from the relentless coverage of the misery being inflicted on the people of Ukraine, and celebrate the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. So what if the Saudis hate us for colluding with their sworn enemy, Iran, let…

As surely as night follows day, no sooner has a new Health Secretary got his knees under the desk than plans emerge for another set of NHS reforms. Having completed a national meet and greet programme, aka The Road to Recovery Tour, Mr Javid now professes to have the cure-all to the NHS’s ills. Handily, the four core ingredients of his medicinal…

Insight has tried to keep this week’s edition a Russia-free zone – a bit like Chelsea FC and Antibes marina – but we cannot ignore the events of the past week, and ponder at the peculiar actions of a self-deluding narcissist. We refer, of course, to the recent appearance of Matt Hancock in the Diary of…

Back in September 200, most of the world watched in horror as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. Not everyone was frozen into inaction however. A combative special advisor to the then Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers, was watching the events unfold from her home. At some point between the first and second tower crumbling, she…

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away… With acknowledgement to William Hughes Mearns’ poem, Antigonish, it’s been something of a week for not-news. Lots of things didn’t happen and several people didn’t appear to be there. Top of the not-news…

Wiping the dust off and clambering onto the family Peloton for the first time in, well far too long to be honest, I was left feeling virtuous if a little giddy. That was actually before one of the relentlessly upbeat instructors had whooped and high-fived me through a sweaty and dyspnoeic twenty minute, so-called low impact…

Just when you’d thought you’d had all the foodie metaphors around the imminent downfall of Mr Johnson, along comes the cream tea plot – so called because the MPs who are now openly conspiring against their leader come from Devon. Is it because they think he’s scone? Or in a jam? While cream tea sounds…

Quote of the week – in fact, very possibly of the decade, goes to MP Conor Burns who claims Boris was  “ambushed by a cake”.  The ensuing brouhaha reveals that Boris has form on this, having been ambushed by a cake on the Peston Show in 2016. It was part of a limp gag about having his…