The Guardian view on the dog days of Boris Johnson’s premiership: crises, which crises?
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The sweltering summer continues to deliver ominous headlines, all pointing to the perfect storm that seems certain to break in the autumn. A new study from York University predicts that, by January 2023, more than hal...
Greek PM denies knowing about tapping of opponent’s phone
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The Greek prime minister has attempted to douse a wiretapping scandal engulfing his government, claiming he had no idea the country’s socialist party leader was being monitored by intelligence services reporting direc...
Boris Johnson rules out emergency measures to tackle cost of living
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Boris Johnson has ruled out new cost of living measures until a new prime minister is in place, with No 10 saying the worst financial pressure on families will not hit until later in the year. The prime minister’s off...
Cost of living crisis: Johnson rejects calls for emergency budget – UK politics live
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Exodus review – home secretary launches leadership bid in satirical farce
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It is with remarkable prescience that Uma Nada-Rajah’s political farce has opened at the same time as the Tory leadership campaign. Just as Sunak and Truss vie to outdo each other with right-wing awfulness, so fiction...
Batting for Godot: the play about Beckett and Pinter teaming up for a game of cricket
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Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter had a lot in common. Both changed the way plays are written and perceived, both were Nobel prize winners and both had a passion for cricket. That last link is a crucial factor in a new...
Salisbury cathedral archives reveal 800 years of smuggling, threats and ‘lying about’
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There are tales of pilfering from the cathedral larder, of smuggling trips and constables chasing layabouts off the manicured lawns – even a crime of passion that ended with a 16th-century dean only just escaping with...
Labour attacks ‘zombie government’ as Boris Johnson returns from holiday
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Labour has hit out at 15 Whitehall consultations being left unanswered by what it called the “zombie government”, as Boris Johnson arrived back at work from a nearly week-long holiday. After being criticised for repor...