Tom Peck

Tom Peck asks why Christmas television is turning into a long celebration of retail — Martin Lewis even uses a spreadsheet to play scrabble

From prepared lines about the NHS to Elon Musk rebuttal, Sir Keir Starmer’s most impressive moments were somewhat scripted

The deputy prime minister is determined to build 1.5 million homes, but does she have the skills to do it?

MPs use the legislation to feed their proxy war over child sexual abuse and grooming gangs

The short-lived Tory prime minister’s threat to sue her successor for libel may helpfully remind wavering voters that it could be so much worse

The PM set out his plans for using the technology to boost growth, but there was little to reassure in his speech

The Tory leader was spoilt for choice of subjects at PMQs and went at the prime minister like the tiger who came to tea

This drama based on a horrific double murder uses the genre’s tropes but lacks narrative drive. Did the pursuit of artistic effect overshadow the story’s devastating reality?

The PM wants a Southport stabbings inquiry to investigate the ‘new’ threat of young men radicalised into violence — but it all sounds wearily familiar

Parliamentary debate turns clarity into chaos — this week’s prime minister’s questions on education reforms were no exception