Fox / Chicken story prompts not-so-cracking puns and live bird-eating challenge
Liam Fox has been ordered to "devour a chlorine-washed chicken live on camera"
Boris Johnson actually compared a traditional Māori greeting to a Glaswegian headbutt
Cable spent his first day as Lib Dem leader talking up comparisons to Emmanuel Macron despite being neither French nor young
Boris Johnson has been trying to offend people again
Boris Johnson actually compared a traditional Māori greeting to a Glaswegian headbutt
Vince Cable's been naughty... with a gun
Cable spent his first day as Lib Dem leader talking up comparisons to Emmanuel Macron despite being neither French nor young
Lord Patten slags 'megaspads' and calls for a cull
Former cabinet minister went spare at special advisers claiming they boss ministers and foster civil war within government
Business minister Margot James is left in the dark
Somebody forgot to put a penny in the meter as the lights went out in the House of Commons
The SNP's Hannah Bardell goes football crazy in the Commons
The MP for Livingston flouted Commons dress rules to show her support for Scotland ahead of big match tonight
Lenny Henry tells MPs to sort out media's 'fake diversity'
David Lammy invited the ground-breaking comedian to the Commons to discuss representation in the media
James Frayne: Tories are playing with fire if they backslide on Brexit
The electorate don't take kindly to a party that reneges on a promise, just ask Nick Clegg
Kae Kurd: Comedians must be quicker to cope with our crazy politics
As the Edinburgh Fringe approaches comics' topical jokes are out of date as soon as they think of them
James Millar: Jeremy Corbyn must choose his friends carefully
With his MPs no longer out to get him the Labour leader faces a moment of truth this summer
Steve Richards: Theresa May will be out of No 10 before the end of Brexit
Various attempts by the PM to make sense of her new post-election context have failed.
George Pascoe-Watson: Theresa May is finally finding her feet
And as long as there is no obvious successor in the wings, senior Tories are now clear that the PM can endure.
Andrew Greenway: What Whitehall really makes of May’s minority government
Those who have worked hard to articulate a case for rational policy changes are scanning the ideological runes of the DUP for pitfalls.
Alastair Campbell interview: My tribalism is being fairly severely challenged
Tony Blair’s former communications supremo is as combative as ever as he battles to stop Brexit. And yet he is not ruling out being Theresa May’s first mental health tsar.
How the Hampstead Socialist lost out to the Islington Socialist
Hampstead used to be home of the Labour intelligentsia, but Islington appears to have wrested the title from its north London neighbour.
Dan Jarvis interview: There’s nothing progressive about ignoring the concerns of voters
After the intense media storm over his leadership challenge that never was, Dan Jarvis has kept a low profile in Westminster. But the former paratrooper is returning to the frontline of politics as he takes on the government over child poverty targets
Oliver Letwin to write a book about how MPs learn from mistakes
Former cabinet minister has a string of gaffes to his name
Beast of Bolsover gets the big screen treatment
Release date announced for a movie about Commons stalwart Dennis Skinner
Angela Eagle set to publish a book on the 'new serfdom' of working life
Labour big beast's new work will look at why aspiration and working life has become a 'cruel joke'