Simon Hoggart's sketch
Our parliamentary sketchwriter offers his take on life in Westminster
George Osborne blown off course
Simon Hoggart: Ed Balls sounded like King Lear, raging against the storm that was blowing outside
The coalition's spare Cameron
With his bald patch and new aggressive style, Nick Clegg resembles the prime minister more with every passing day
Simon Hoggart's sketch: MPs sense blood of a dead parrot
Simon Hoggart: Ed Davey earns jeers and taunts from Labour as he tries to justify energy costs to the Commons
Another day, another U-turn: less a ship of state and more a dodgem ride
Simon HoggartSimon Hoggart | Ministers who are nominally driving keep crashing into each other as they swerve all over the political highway
Great turnip's candle flickers, then finally bursts into flame
Simon HoggartEric Pickles started the day quietly, but by the close of play Labour MPs were feeling the sharp end of his tongue
Keith Vaz grills police connected to Andrew Mitchell 'plebgate' affair
Simon HoggartHome affairs select committee chairman demands apologies – but officer says: I can't apologise for something I haven't done
David Cameron's speech to the CBI: faint praise from preacher Dave
Simon HoggartThe PM waved his arms around, chopping the air, patting one hand against the other like two butterflies fighting over a flower
David Cameron's glass warfare at PMQs
Simon HoggartThe PM deployed his new eyewear like a weapon, waving them in the air and banging them down on the dispatch box
Energy companies' heartwarming (but not housewarming) performance
Simon HoggartListening to the bosses of the energy firms, you'd imagine they were running charities rather than businesses
David Cameron's threat to Guardian: veiled maybe, but plain for all to see
Simon HoggartPM's Commons statement overshadowed by Tory MP Michael Fabricant's return to fray in feather boa (but no stiletto heels)
John Major, the Marxist
Simon HoggartThose who intervene in the energy market are living in a Marxist universe, Cameron said. What does that make Major?
Sir John Major gets his carefully-crafted revenge on the bastards
Simon HoggartTory former prime minister's speech was a nostalgic trip down memory lane, where he mugged the Eurosceptics
Ed Davey could do with power boost over Hinkley Point C
Simon HoggartEnergy minister battles pressure over 'transparent' deal as Labour jeers remind him of Lib Dems' anti-nuclear past
Al-Madinah's 'inadequacy' sparks good old-school Commons slanging match
Simon HoggartTristram Hunt's angry questions on Gove's flagship free schools policy are answered by an even more furious David Laws
David Cameron creates a grudge match and pushes for an apology
Prime minister demands an apology for Andrew Mitchell while Dennis Skinner searches for sympathy but fails to find any
The not so magnificent seven vying to become Commons deputy speaker
Simon HoggartLike chess players making a knight's move, many MPs will vote for whom they don't want in order to get the Speaker they do
Welfare party? Well, the Queen won't want to pay the bedroom tax
Ian Duncan Smith's attempt to paint Labour as squandering skiver-lovers just makes the Tories seem even more heartless
David Cameron's idea of eternal bliss? Ed Balls
It was the prime minister's birthday but wouldn't he have preferred a box of chocolates or a new breadmaker?
Maria Miller calls time – more time – in the press's last chance saloon
Culture secretary's procrastination over press regulation stirs the Commons into questioning her multi-tasking skills
David Cameron paints picture of his Narnian state for Tory cheermongers
Simon Hoggart: Prime minister made it sound like any Labour win would amount to the wardrobe to this land of opportunity being taken away
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