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Robert Hutton
@RobDotHutton
Political sketches and film columnist for @TheCriticMag, co-host of classic cinema love-in @WarMovieTheatre. New spy book "The Illusionist" out now!
Oct 31, 2023 • 28 tweets • 4 min read
Covid Inquiry - Cain/Cummings Day!
Lee Cain on the early March 2020 government plan: "It’s a very thin document. If this is the plan, then we don’t have a plan." Cain: “The communications side drove a huge amount of the government machine in my time.”
Jun 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Mel Stride tells @BBCr4today that he agreed with the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson, but thought an imaginary 90-day punishment was too harsh. He is now going through Rishi Sunak's diary explaining why the prime minister was too busy to vote. This is all, politely, balls. PMs can get across London quite quickly if they want to.
Jun 19, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Penny Mordaunt sits alone on the government front bench, having explained why she will be supporting the verdict on Boris Johnson. None of her ministerial colleagues have turned out to support her. She has now been joined by Jo Churchill.
Jun 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"I, my party's leading intellectual, don't really know what I think about prime ministers lying to parliament." After all the moralising that Conservative MPs subjected us to in the Jeremy Corbyn years, they can't even bring themselves to back a report by a committee with a Tory majority.
Feb 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
We're All Trying to Find the Gove Who Did This: my SKETCH of Today in Hot Dog Toryism (a phrase for which @thomasforth credits @alexhern) thecritic.co.uk/were-all-tryin… Introducing Britain's most frustrating pressure group: Brexiteers Against Brexit. thecritic.co.uk/were-all-tryin…
Feb 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As Twitter slowly fails, I've launched an annoying new way for you to find out when I've written a sketch! Sign up for free, and I'll email you...
roberthutton.substack.com/p/a-free-subst… Need to work out how to make that picture a bit smaller. It's freaking me out.
Oct 27, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Given that the line on the ministerial code is now "we believe in redemption", it's important that, as a nation, we understand the doctrinal basis on which the government is working. Does redemption, for instance, require repentance or atonement? Many British administrations have had a revealed preference for substitionary sacrifice.
Oct 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Friends fear that he's Gone There in his SKETCH.
thecritic.co.uk/theyll-have-wh… If you don't want to have to bleach your mind, look away now. thecritic.co.uk/theyll-have-wh… Image
Oct 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Confused by Tory conference? I think I've cracked it. My SKETCH: thecritic.co.uk/trussception/ Ministers suddenly changing costume, appearing to contradict things they said earlier, giving interviews that are out of sequence? It all makes sense when you realise that this conference is being directed by Christopher Nolan: thecritic.co.uk/trussception/
Oct 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"You can't just start a riot or glue yourself to the road and get away with it," Suella Braverman tells Tory conference.

Although it's pretty clear that if you nick an iPad or break into a house, the cops aren't interested. (It should be said that Braverman is the only speaker to have woken the Conservative Party up this afternoon. Although her content is largely In Favour of Good Things, Against Bad Things.)
Oct 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Donkeys led by Donkeys: my SKETCH of Today at Tory Conference. thecritic.co.uk/donkeys-led-by… How does one even attempt to sketch this event?
thecritic.co.uk/donkeys-led-by… Image
Sep 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If only there had been some clue that she was like this. If only there had been a warning that fracking was unpopular.
Feb 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I have spent a *lot* of time at Heathrow's Windsor Suite over the last two decades, and would suggest that £8,000 is a generous valuation of its facilities. spectator.co.uk/article/steve-… Image Maybe those tiny cans of Coke are more expensive than we realised.
Jan 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The Tragic History of Boris, Thane of Uxbridge.
thecritic.co.uk/what-bloody-ma… The scene: A blasted Heathrow.
thecritic.co.uk/what-bloody-ma…
Dec 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Stepping back, the problem facing No10 is who carries the can for all this.
* Obviously Allegra Stratton and Ed Oldfield are now both in unsustainable positions. And indeed anyone else identified in the laughing video.
BUT Stratton "went home". So... ... the next in line is anyone identified as having attended the party, and its organisers.
Junior staff you could get away with reprimanding, but someone senior who was involved will probably have to go.
BUT who else knew about it?
No10 this week denied it happened. So...
Dec 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"What's the answer!?" My SKETCH of yesterday in The Party That Never Happened. thecritic.co.uk/where-followin… Featuring my shock, shock I tell you, that a government led by Boris Johnson would behave this way... thecritic.co.uk/where-followin…
Dec 7, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Leadership Matters: my SKETCH of today in the roof falling in at Downing Street. And the Foreign Office.
thecritic.co.uk/where-followin… Featuring my COMPLETE SHOCK at learning that No10 denials didn't stack up. thecritic.co.uk/where-followin…
Dec 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bloody hell. I mean actual bloody hell. This is so bad.
Dec 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Schrödinger's Party: my SKETCH of Boris Johnson's all-out war on law-breaking*.

*not all law-breaking
thecritic.co.uk/night-time-is-… Featuring the momentary anxiety about our possessions that we all feel when learning that the government has embarked on a "crime week". thecritic.co.uk/night-time-is-… Image
Nov 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I have been suspended as Sketchwriter for @TheCriticMag following allegations that I abused my position to promote products for personal gain. I completely reject this, and repeat again that I only ever acted in the public interest. thecritic.co.uk/tall-smooth-an… Although Sketchwriting rules forbid product placement, there are clear exemptions for actions in the public interest. I only ever wished to blow the whistle on the low, low prices charged by the good folks at Glenrandox for their whisky-like beverages. thecritic.co.uk/tall-smooth-an…
Jan 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: Boris Johnson's office urges everyone in politics* to use "civil and respectful" language.

*exclusions apply. Boris Johnson's office explains that call for "civil and respectful" language is a from-now-on thing, and refuses to discuss past examples of language that wasn't civil and respectful.