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John Bercow Articles

The Momentum monarch

Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village Something is just not working. No matter how much he tries, Jeremy Corbyn just cannot find any peace and quiet. There was only one thing that could fix this: a brief foray into the world for a relaunch. We know it...

Cameron, Clarkson and the Chipping Norton way

Rightwing controversy-seeking television presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked by the BBC this week after an internal report undertaken by the corporation found that the self-styled warrior against political correctness physically and verbally assaulted a TV producer....

Books for the beach

What Labour MPs should be reading this summer Along with their selections for Desert Island Discs, politicians’ declared choices of holiday reading are usually concocted to curry favour with the voters. Margaret Thatcher once claimed her choice of poolside reading was...

Playground politics

History tells us the bigger the lie, the more people are inclined to believe it. David Cameron must be playing this game. He said twice at prime minister’s questions that the Tories had put more money into the NHS and that they had cut bureaucracy. These assertions...