Overrated

Overrated: Dame Barbara Stocking

Oxfam’s former chief executive now stands accused of complacency and hypocrisy

Overrated: Nigel Farage

The seven-times-failed candidate presents himself to the world as Mr Brexit but his party, UKIP, is now fading fast

Overrated: Martin Selmayr

The architect of the EU’s hard line on Brexit

Overrated: Richard Branson

The Europhile Virgin billionaire is reluctant to put his own money where his mouth is

Overrated: Dennis Skinner

It's time to debunk the myth that the Beast of Bolsover, the oldest member of the Commons, is a brilliant parliamentary figure

Overrated: Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan knows how to make himself popular, but he has a duty to open up closed Muslim communities

Overrated: Eric Hobsbawm

The Marxist historian, born a century ago, didn’t just turn a blind eye to the crimes of Communism but to much else besides

Overrated: Sayeeda Warsi

The rise and fall of a poster girl for integration who now depicts Britain’s Muslims as an oppressed minority

Overrated: Barack Obama

The former president’s administration was defined by lies, cover-ups and incompetent foreign policy

Overrated: John Bercow

The self-aggrandising Speaker has confused the importance of his office with that of its holder

Underrated: Abroad

The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”

The king of cakes

"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"