Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton

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RobDotHutton from the broken site. Parliamentary sketches and film columnist for The Critic, co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. New spy book "The Illusionist" is out now.

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TONIGHT! One of us wrote a book about a serial liar with a complicated sex life, and the other one wrote about Boris Johnson. Join me and Tim Shipman at Waterstones Piccadilly as we talk about war, voting, spies, deception and magic. It'll be great fun. www.waterstones.com/events/tim-s...

Tim Shipman and Robert Hutton in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstoneswww.waterstones.com Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Tim Shipman and Robert Hutton in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly today.

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This is why I read these articles, for the incredibly specific analogies

Embracing The Quiet Life: my SKETCH of Starmer's promise of a calmer politics. (I may have fallen asleep before this ran last night.) thecritic.co.uk/embracing-th...

Embracing the quiet life | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “To the country, I would like to say, first and foremost, I am sorry.” Finally, when it was too late to make a difference, as he left Downing Street for the last time, Rishi Sunak was saying what he…

Embracing The Quiet Life: my SKETCH of Starmer's promise of a calmer politics. (I may have fallen asleep before this ran last night.) thecritic.co.uk/embracing-th...

Embracing the quiet life | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “To the country, I would like to say, first and foremost, I am sorry.” Finally, when it was too late to make a difference, as he left Downing Street for the last time, Rishi Sunak was saying what he…

That Was The Night That Was. My SKETCH of landslides somehow not being what they used to be. thecritic.co.uk/that-was-the...

That was the night that was | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk A new dawn has broken, then. For an apocalypse, it felt a little flat. Perhaps Tory wipeouts, like rock music, can only be properly experienced before you turn 30. There were results in the small…

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If you fancy hearing some Oh God, What Now and other Podmasters regulars bunny their way through the election results overnight, probably slowly getting drunk on booze and schadenfreude, this is where to find us from 10pm. www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatno...

OH GOD, WHAT NOW?www.youtube.com Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quali...

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Every time I see an idiot say ‘supermajority’ I hear it in Logan’s voice in this scene #supermajority youtu.be/FCgC9def70s?...

SUCCESSION - LOGAN ROY MIMIC SHIVS VOICE IN AN ANGRIEST WAYyoutu.be #hbo #succession

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Why if the Tories won the election? Spent lunchtime recording this deeply traumatic episode of Oh God, What Now?

Oh God, What Now?link.chtbl.com Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quali...

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Boris Comes Down From The Mountain. My SKETCH of Last night's "messiah, or very naughty boy?" event. thecritic.co.uk/boris-comes-...

Boris comes down from the mountain | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “Boris! Boris! Boris!” The few hundred Conservative activists gathered at the National Army Museum in Chelsea on Tuesday evening were going wild. Their hero was back! Boris Johnson…

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Glorious prose

Boris Comes Down From The Mountain. My SKETCH of Last night's "messiah, or very naughty boy?" event. thecritic.co.uk/boris-comes-...

Boris comes down from the mountain | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “Boris! Boris! Boris!” The few hundred Conservative activists gathered at the National Army Museum in Chelsea on Tuesday evening were going wild. Their hero was back! Boris Johnson…

Boris Comes Down From The Mountain. My SKETCH of Last night's "messiah, or very naughty boy?" event. thecritic.co.uk/boris-comes-...

Boris comes down from the mountain | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “Boris! Boris! Boris!” The few hundred Conservative activists gathered at the National Army Museum in Chelsea on Tuesday evening were going wild. Their hero was back! Boris Johnson…

🎶Imagine There's No Labour, It's Easy If You Try 🎶 My SKETCH joins Tory ministers as they retreat into fantasy. thecritic.co.uk/imagine-ther...

Imagine there’s no Labour | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “Just imagine,” Kemi Badenoch wrote in Tuesday’s Telegraph, “what Labour would have done if …” Let’s pause her there for a moment, because the Business Secretary is very far from the only Tory who has...

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these Tory election leaflets are becoming increasingly desperate I feel

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“We get newspaper articles about the way young men are radicalised online by Andrew Tate, but no one is talking about the way the over-50s are being lured into extreme centrism by Old Etonian podcasters.”

We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go through them! “Cautious cautious, Cautious cautious...” thecritic.co.uk/going-on-a-t...

Going on a Truss hunt | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go…

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‘I am picking up a sense that however much the rest of Britain may feel it dislikes Truss, there are people in South West Norfolk who have disliked her longer, harder, and with greater specificity.’

We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go through them! “Cautious cautious, Cautious cautious...” thecritic.co.uk/going-on-a-t...

Going on a Truss hunt | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go…

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Fantastic stuff!

We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go through them! “Cautious cautious, Cautious cautious...” thecritic.co.uk/going-on-a-t...

Going on a Truss hunt | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go…

We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go through them! “Cautious cautious, Cautious cautious...” thecritic.co.uk/going-on-a-t...

Going on a Truss hunt | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk We’re going on a Truss hunt! We’re going to catch a PM! What a beautiful day. We’re not scared! Oh no! Labour! Keir Starmer’s Labour! We can’t go over them. We can’t go under them. We’ll have to go…

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For a man who professes to know better than everyone else Farage sure does seem easy to set up…

"We now turn to Liars" - my SKETCH of Nigel Farage's speech accepting this year's Golden Politician award. thecritic.co.uk/are-you-ther...

Are you there God? It’s me, Farage | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “It’s been tough.” On a stage in Birmingham, before a crowd of thousands, Nigel Farage was baring his soul. “The last few days have been tough.” This is true. People have once again been making life…

"We now turn to Liars" - my SKETCH of Nigel Farage's speech accepting this year's Golden Politician award. thecritic.co.uk/are-you-ther...

Are you there God? It’s me, Farage | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “It’s been tough.” On a stage in Birmingham, before a crowd of thousands, Nigel Farage was baring his soul. “The last few days have been tough.” This is true. People have once again been making life…

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Sunak the guy has been in a safe bubble all his life, with no sense of jeopardy or consequence to making mistakes. Safe education, a safe job where greed and selfishness were rewarded. Safe seat in the commons to nod along with other middle management city types. #GeneralElection

In which I attempt to answer the Great Question Of The Election: how is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? thecritic.co.uk/the-rise-and...

The rise and fall of Rishi | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk How is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? Having posed the question some months ago, it’s time to have a crack at answering it. The election campaign has left little dispute about his lack of political nous…

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I wrote about Keir Starmer and whether Labour’s imminent victory is anything to do with him. thecritic.co.uk/keir-more-th...

Keir: more than just a lucky general | Tom Hamilton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects…

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Dancing Round The Issues: my SKETCH of Tonight in "Who won? Who won?" thecritic.co.uk/dancing-arou...

Dancing around the issues | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk Who won? Who won? Up and down the country, people were banging on neighbours’ windows to ask who had come out ahead in the gajillionth (or, as some claim, second) televised confrontation between Rishi...

Dancing Round The Issues: my SKETCH of Tonight in "Who won? Who won?" thecritic.co.uk/dancing-arou...

Dancing around the issues | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk Who won? Who won? Up and down the country, people were banging on neighbours’ windows to ask who had come out ahead in the gajillionth (or, as some claim, second) televised confrontation between Rishi...

In which I attempt to answer the Great Question Of The Election: how is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? thecritic.co.uk/the-rise-and...

The rise and fall of Rishi | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk How is Rishi Sunak so bad at this? Having posed the question some months ago, it’s time to have a crack at answering it. The election campaign has left little dispute about his lack of political nous…

Technical problems: my SKETCH of trying to watch Sunak and Starmer from Sun Towers: thecritic.co.uk/technical-pr...

Technical problems | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “Just… careful.” We were on the 17th floor of the super soaraway Sun newspaper headquarters, where Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer had arrived to make their pitches to the tabloid’s readers.

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I've got it. They're Oceans 11ing it. This isn't the real bet. The REAL bet is that they get a complete wipe out... and this is all just part of the plan.

My new favourite chart: www.ft.com/content/1cc5...

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Policies Galore! My SKETCH of Today in Scottish Independence just being one or more votes away. thecritic.co.uk/policies-gal...

Policies Galore! | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “People,” John Swinney declared, “are crying out for principled leadership.” Was the First Minister of Scotland about to lay into his predecessors? After all, the Scottish National Party has been in…

Policies Galore! My SKETCH of Today in Scottish Independence just being one or more votes away. thecritic.co.uk/policies-gal...

Policies Galore! | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “People,” John Swinney declared, “are crying out for principled leadership.” Was the First Minister of Scotland about to lay into his predecessors? After all, the Scottish National Party has been in…

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Walking a Tightrope: my SKETCH of Jeremy Hunt, frenemy of his own government. thecritic.co.uk/walking-a-ti...

Walking a tightrope | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “I’m going to speak tonight as Jeremy Hunt, and I’m not always going to take the government line.” In a comfortable church hall on a Monday evening in Godalming, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is…

Walking a Tightrope: my SKETCH of Jeremy Hunt, frenemy of his own government. thecritic.co.uk/walking-a-ti...

Walking a tightrope | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk “I’m going to speak tonight as Jeremy Hunt, and I’m not always going to take the government line.” In a comfortable church hall on a Monday evening in Godalming, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is…

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This whole sketch is great but this paragraph got a genuine dark LOL…