"Plenty to be getting on with"

The Tory leadership contest: a bunch of famous, infamous and utterly anonymous grotesques jockeying for attention in the hope of becoming an even worse prime minister than Theresa May. For Marina Hyde, however, it's manna from heaven.

In her latest piece for the Guardian, Boris Johnson is "that flytipped sofa", Dominic Raab has the look of a flustered white-collar guy who's accidentally killed someone and Brexit is "a mass Tory sex game that's gone badly wrong". She concludes that "a 'new face' is going to solve the Tory party's underlying problems about as much as a 'new face' used to solve Michael Jackson's underlying problems" and that the only rational response to it all is to drink oneself into oblivion "until the mid-2030s". It's hard not to agree.