Boris Johnson’s zing has well and truly zung: Matthew Parris

Like sheep without a shepherd, voters who trusted the PM have grown confused and resentful at his lack of leadership, says Matthew Parris.

This may be another shot in the early Murdoch campaign to replace Johnson with Oiky Gove but it's quite accurate in its criticisms.

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I was wrong to back Boris, says Toby Young

Toby Young (cough, spit) has given us his thoughts on the reign of Boris Johnson. On the basis that even a smashed cock can be right once in a while, here's the liquid prose of nork-loving Mr Young, failed school entreprenour.

Be warned, the article is in Young's usual style - smarmy, egotisitical and sometimes wrong in fact or conclusion.

Stop banging on about Brexit and defeat Covid: Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer's Telegraph (!) article on Brexit and Covid. Mixed metaphors and lack of power. Typos are, I assume, the DT's own.

Disappoining? Yes. The strategy of not being too nasty to the charlatan PM is beginning to wear thin, more appeasement than attack. Knee to the groin, Keir, he'll think he's back at Eton.