Gareth Roberts

Share Topics Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. British banknotes are getting a facelift. In fact, the only human face remaining on them will belong to the king. The backs of the notes have long been home to portraits of national figures of historical importance – Dickens, Alan Turing, Jane Austen, etc. Now those old fuddy-duddies are to be replaced by voles, badgers and beavers. In essence, we are swapping Winston Churchill for a hedgehog.

Zarah Sultana still hasn’t realised that mullahs and men in dresses don’t make for the best bedfellows. Share Topics Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Noël Coward’s advice on life in general – ‘Be flippant. Laugh at everything’ – is worth keeping in mind for those of us who are passengers in the collapsing clown car that is mid-2020s Britain. New figures reveal that a quarter of a million Brits have fled the country since Labour returned to power.

Zarah Sultana still hasn’t realised that mullahs and men in dresses don’t make for the best bedfellows. Share Topics Politics UK Want unlimited, ad-free access? Become a spiked supporter. Noël Coward’s advice on life in general – ‘Be flippant. Laugh at everything’ – is worth keeping in mind for those of us who are passengers in the collapsing clown car that is mid-2020s Britain. New figures reveal that a quarter of a million Brits have fled the country since Labour returned to power.