Margaret Colley on Westminster’s finest, the opposition’s finest hour that never arrives, and four unrelated stories that dominated everything Read through this week’s opposition benches coverage looking for a coherent policy position and, as ever, came away with more questions than answers, several pages of notes, and a growing suspicion…

Margaret Colley on Westminster, the same four stories, and a news cycle that refuses to move on Second day running with the same four stories dominating conversation both in the lobby and, increasingly, in my own column, which under ordinary circumstances would genuinely concern me editorially, but the traffic numbers…

Margaret Colley on a persistent news cycle that’s dominated her entire working week so far Third consecutive day of the same four stories, and I’ve started genuinely wondering whether the news cycle has simply decided to take an extended residency in my column rather than moving along the way every…

Statements, spin and a sports betting scandal that briefly overshadowed everything else A Political Diary Spent the morning reading the latest incoherent statements from the usual benches, then noticed even that story had been pushed down the page by the Sydney Sweeney Novig advert, which is either a mercy or…