Politics in the age of the chiefs of staff
Advisers like Dominic Cummings and Morgan McSweeney might become the story – but real power always lies with the leader.
ByDominic Cummings
Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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We still can’t escape Covid
The Covid inquiry is doing roughly the same thing to national morale as the pandemic itself.
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Dominic Cummings’ saviour complex
The former No 10 aide cast himself as a dormant, blameless character until his pivotal intervention.
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Peter Mandelson was omnipresent at the Labour conference
Your dose of gossip from around Westminster and the Liverpool Convention Centre.
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Death rattle conservatism
The NatCons are poised to capture a party in terminal decline.
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Dom: The Play is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is
This twee, smug, lowest-common-denominator political satire is not just bad: it’s mindless.
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Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction
In these retrospectively constructed “entries”, Hancock casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.…
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The Tory leadership candidates are all peddling dangerous delusions
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
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Why the departure of Dominic Cummings was the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson
The former chief adviser gave the government purpose. When he left, the painful descent was inevitable.
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Jodi Dean: “Identity tells us nothing about politics”
The political theorist Jodi Dean wants to revive "comradeship" and class struggle as an antidote to divisive arguments about race…
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Dominic Cummings won’t be the last disenchanted No 10 official to cause trouble for Boris Johnson
Sue Gray's report could leave a slew of bitter former advisers intent on revenge.
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Is Dominic Cummings behind the Downing Street party leaks?
Since his departure the former No 10 aide has reinvented himself as the discloser of Boris Johnson’s secrets.
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How Dominic Cummings has given the EU the perfect excuse for Brexit rage
Cummings’s claim that Boris Johnson always intended to renege on the Northern Ireland protocol is timed to cause maximum damage.
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Dominic Cummings’s revenge
How much should we trust an unreliable narrator?
Should Boris Johnson be worried about Dominic Cummings’s Covid claims?
If his Twitter feed is anything to go by, the former advisor's select committee hearing will be explosive.
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s war of words
Did the Prime Minister really say he’d rather “let the bodies pile high” than go into a third lockdown?