Digested week: Do we really have to see Liz Truss at the Cenotaph for the next 30 years? | John Crace

The column satirises Richard Tice’s complaint that Nigel Farage received too little BBC airtime during the Remembrance Sunday service, arguing that the ceremony should focus on remembrance rather than political visibility. It also criticises the tradition of inviting former prime ministers, singling out Liz Truss and Boris Johnson’s appearance.

The article says there are now nine former prime ministers invited to the Cenotaph and jokes about Truss attending for decades to come. It then shifts to the writer’s personal news: he and Jill have adopted Stella, a five-year-old cockapoo, after readers helped them find a new home for a dog. The supplied article text ends partway through a separate passage about Kashim Chowdhury, who was found guilty of nine fraud offences and held five full-time public sector jobs at once in 2023.