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John Crace

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Political sketch-writer for the Guardian. Author. Latest book out now 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10'.

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 1h
Last few tickets for my show at Birmingham MAC on October 31st. Please do come macbirmingham.co.uk/events/john-...
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John Crace: What The Hell Just Happened? | Mac Birmingham
The last 10 years of British politics has been one long psychodrama. The Scottish referendum. David Cameron’s surprise election win. Brexit. Theresa May. B
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And Happy Birthday for Saturday, Peter
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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All hail the Kult of Kemi – captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives | John Crace
The Tory leader is now too big for the party to allow her to fail, so everything she does is acclaimed a work of genius
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Extra tickets just released for my show at Birmingham MAC on October 31. Please do come. It will be fun macbirmingham.co.uk/events/john-...
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John Crace: What The Hell Just Happened? | Mac Birmingham
The last 10 years of British politics has been one long psychodrama. The Scottish referendum. David Cameron’s surprise election win. Brexit. Theresa May. B
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Don’t mention the Iron Dome: comedy genius Kemi on warpath at Tory conference | John Crace
Conservative leader’s ‘It’s a Britannia Shield’ announcement proves no one does farcical improv better than her
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Last few tickets available for my Brighton show on October 16th. Please do come www.komedia.co.uk/shows/john-c...
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John Crace: What The Hell Just Happened?
Join John Crace for an evening of comedy exploring the chaos of British politics over the last decade and more.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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No queues, empty seats and the worst speech ever heard: welcome to the Tory conference | John Crace
Birmingham event is like a safari park attraction where we get to see the remnants of a party in a protected habitat
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Though my show at Birmingham MAC on October 31 says it is sold out, a few more tickets are being released on Monday. Apologies for inconvenience. Please be patient
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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At Brighton, Polanski raised his arms in triumph. It felt more like a wave goodbye
The Greens’ leader seems long on agitprop but short on ideas – and one byelection away from losing his job
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Digested week: My heart sank at seeing Labour’s ‘Hope Again’ conference slogan. But then came Andy Burnham | John Crace
The prime minister gave far and away the most powerful, emotional and gamechanging leader’s speech of the century
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Welcome to the new Reform roadshow. Same as the last but more desperate | John Crace
Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in Nige
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m very concerned that the writing clan is called Crace. There’s even a Jonathan. Thankfully I’m a John. But too close for comfort!
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Do parents make the politician? Find out on the Today programme’s psychotherapy couch
Dad’s the word for Andy Burnham, so maybe all party leaders should be seen afresh through a Freudian lens
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Reality pays a visit to the Labour party conference, but it’s the ‘Hope Again’ that kills you
Most MPs are clinging to this year’s Beckettian slogan, but the chancellor brought his own brand of despair
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Burnham refreshes the parts others can’t reach on the Andy and Laura show | John Crace
The PM oozes confidence and easy-going charm as he tells Laura Kuenssberg the hill he’ll die on is fixing social care
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
EXC - We *also* have an MRP out today - which has some very striking findings. Progressives who vote tactically to stop Nigel Farage’s Reform UK could push his party into FOURTH place. The poll also shows Burnham’s Labour is winning back left-leaning voters. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace
The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavish sprinkling of adverbs
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Call it a win: boredom but no temper tantrums in Burnham’s first face-to-face with America’s King Baby
Meeting at the UN in New York, the UK prime minister showed signs he can handle trash-talking President Trump
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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A bored-looking Farage unveils a new Welsh leader – he still seems fond of the old one | John Crace
Helen Jenner replaces Dan Thomas, who stood down after his arrest on suspicion of assault, but gets warm words from Nigel
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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With Kemi’s new shadow chancellor, the Tories must hope for a bout of public amnesia
Andrew Griffith is keen on clearing red tape. Good job he wasn’t part of a Treasury team that abolished the Office for Tax Simplification
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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No matter how deranged and delusional your podcast is, Liz Truss can go further | John Crace
In the Trusster’s latest appearance, she says Blair and Brown had a plot to dismantle civilisation and the Tories were part of the woke establishment
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure why Reform are starting their own TV channel when they already have GB News
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace
US president insists that fears expressed by top experts are a hoax – and that humanity can sleep easy while he’s at the wheel
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Richard Tice rallies to the defence of Reform’s crypto ‘patriots’ | John Crace
You can’t buy Dicky’s level of stupidity though it could be argued that Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo just have
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Who better to defend Reform’s latest millions than Honest Bob Jenrick? | John Crace
The man who once helped Richard ‘Dirty’ Desmond save a load of tax was wheeled out to face Laura Kuenssberg
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yes. My grandad. He died when I was v young. I barely knew him but was terrified of him
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
10% of the season gone and Spurs yet to score a goal. Impressive
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Forgetful Farage shares rose-tinted memories of Reform’s party conference | John Crace
Oops, Nige skipped over the most embarrassing and dark details – let’s set the record straight
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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‘Mr Congeniality’ Burnham advises Badenoch to ditch the point-scoring over defence spending | John Crace
Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions as she comes up short against a PM who preaches consensus politics
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Commons breathes a sigh of relief as UK finally takes a moral stance of Israeli settlements | John Crace
Opposition to Miliband’s announcement of sanctions rings hollow – helped by fewer than 10 Tory backbenchers turning up to debate
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Painful, unconvincing and boring: welcome to John Healey’s late show | John Crace
Chancellor has the look of a man born to announce the UK is under nuclear attack
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Long-term proteges and verifiable reality must be jettisoned for Saving Private Nige | John Crace
Has Farage’s brain been hacked? Has he started talking in his sleep? There’s no shortage of explanations for this scandal
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Lovely piece Gaby.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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‘I can’t be bought,’ Nige tells Reform’s faithful – however different it may look | John Crace
Just as the party leader had hoped to change the narrative, along came Channel 4 News to spoil his conference fun
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There’s another one coming. Being edited and lawyered now
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Digested week: Tom Tugendhat is a serious politician. What’s he doing in a Reform-lite Tory frontbench? | John Crace
Want to see how small the gene pool of Tory talent is? I give you Andrew Griffith as shadow chancellor. Also this week: Starmer’s Fomo, and telly wars
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Unlike needy Keir, trash-talking Andy speaks a language Trump understands | John Crace
Burnham has nothing to hide as he prepares to meet president he once called poisonous. It may actually win him more respect
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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With Nige still sulking, Honest Bob was left to unveil Reform’s latest ‘policies’ | John Crace
The sense of futility hanging over the room was almost overwhelming as Robert Jenrick took the stage
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Spurs continuing where they left off
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In which Dicky Tice outs himself as a nepo baby
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Reform UK hates ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees – apprenticeships in dodgy crypto, anyone?
Dicky Tice recalls digging trenches with a JCB as a young man, omitting to say the firm he went on to run was founded by his grandfather
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Reform politicians are such a joke, they deserve a slot on the Edinburgh fringe | John Crace
Nige’s gift, Dicky’s love of global heating and so much more – what fun it is watching the party implode
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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It must be tricky for Nige to remember what’s what. It’s so hideously complicated | John Crace
I can’t pass up the moment the Reform leader celebrates his byelection victory against a man with a dustbin on his head
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When Honest Bob is too extreme even for GB News…
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football
Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No one thinks they will have to pay for social care. Until they find they do
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Andy Burnham wants to fix social care. It’s personal for him and for a lot of us too
Finally a grownup is in charge who speaks to voters as fellow adults. If he fixes this, he’ll achieve more than most other PMs
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Non!
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