Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

There is more dissent in the country – where assisted dying is legal – than MPs in the UK have been led to believe.

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tries to revive the genre but ends up proving it passé. Agathe (tall, gawky, glorious Camille Rutherford), single, in her thirties, works in the Shakespeare & Co bookshop ...

achel Reeves entered office vowing that there would be no return to austerity. Her first Budget imposed the largest tax rises ...

Beyoncé returned to London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a three-hour-long showcase for her most recent album, Cowboy Carter. She set the tone with her opening son ...

Mel Stride, the Shadow Chancellor, replied with a speech of exuberant pessimism, accusing Reeves of completely losing control ...

Also this week: The secrets of the president’s success, and a reliable diplomatic asset: my loyal Ambassa-Dog.

Billy Boston shows that excellence can come from Tiger Bay, Cardiff, as much as it can from the Home Counties.

he first thing the Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants you to know is that her spending review is not “austerity”. That was how ...

I had another one of those birthdays the other day. It was a small and pleasant affair, held as per usual in the garden of ...

I did a geography degree, and there’s a circularity in the way things have turned out: I was reading poems when I should have ...

t’s Spending Review day, when Rachel Reeves gets to set departmental budgets for much of the rest of the parliament. The ...