The allure of Reform
Kemi Badenoch’s travails with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party have taken me back to the politics of the 1980s and…
Trump’s lessons for Europe
Donald Trump’s dramatic intervention in Venezuela has achieved much more than to bring a brutal, corrupt dictator and drug trafficker…
My bid to be chancellor of Oxford
I have spent the past couple of weeks in Oxford rediscovering the art of conversation while campaigning for election as…
Things can always get worse for the Tories
Before migrating to Wiltshire where I will be for August, I had a friendly dinner with a clutch of Conservative…
Diary
In Singapore last week, I was asked: do ministers just come in, reach for the dumbest available policy and go…
Diary
I made it through the airport crush to Berlin at the beginning of last week to see how Germany is…
Diary
My trips to meet Russians in Russia these days are a little less controversial than my encounter with them in…
