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The Nissan test: can we really negotiate Brexit sector by sector?
I wrote last month that a key test of Brexit success will be whether Nissan is still making cars here…
The most persecuted minority at universities
A few columns ago, I told the mortifying story of how I totally died at the Oxford Union. Today I’m…
How clever are ravens? I asked at the Tower
On Tower Hill, by the east wall of Beauchamp Tower where Robert Dudley was imprisoned for a year, a raven…
Order, order! It’s up to May to stop this ministerial bickering
Even by the accelerated standards of modern politics, this is fast. Three months after the Chancellor was appointed, the Treasury…
The Spectator’s notes
Vote Leave was the most successful electoral campaign in British history. Against the opposition of all three political parties, it…
Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?
Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years…
Will Brexit butcher the banks?
The financial crisis defines our age. It helps explain everything from the presidential nomination of Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn’s…
Hard Brexit, soft sterling and a glimpse of the Night Manager across the water
This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…
The Spectator’s Notes
Given all the outrageous things that Donald Trump has done and said already, why has he got into so much…
At all three party conferences, I felt cut adrift
Perhaps it’s age, perhaps disillusion, or perhaps party conferences really aren’t what they used to be, but I have struggled…
Tory Theresa is Blue Labour at heart
I never really agreed with the central-thesis of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — that ‘42’ is the answer…
Hard Brexit, soft sterling and a glimpse of the Night Manager across the water
This column comes from Puerto Pollensa in Majorca, my favourite off-season watering-hole. The hotel is full of elderly Daily Mail…
Is that a bomb in your pocket? Or a spy? Or both?
Remember how much fun it used to be getting a new phone? I think of a friend a few years…
Will Brexit butcher the banks?
The financial crisis defines our age. It helps explain everything from the presidential nomination of Donald Trump to Jeremy Corbyn’s…
The Spectator’s Notes
Given all the outrageous things that Donald Trump has done and said already, why has he got into so much…
Tory Theresa is Blue Labour at heart
I never really agreed with the central-thesis of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — that ‘42’ is the answer…
Theresa’s Tory love-in
Theresa May doesn’t use an autocue for her speeches. She feels that reading off a screen at the back of…
The Spectator’s Notes
Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…
The new reality on immigration
The good people of Hungary went to the polls on Sunday and voted by more than 98 per cent against…
I want my Brexit good and strong
What you really should have done if you were in Birmingham on Monday this week was skip the not notably…
Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes
‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…
Brexit spooks the markets, but the housing crisis will swing more votes
‘I rang and said can I have a council house, I’ve nowhere to go, an’ the bloke said no you…
I want my Brexit good and strong
What you really should have done if you were in Birmingham on Monday this week was skip the not notably…
Theresa’s Tory love-in
Theresa May doesn’t use an autocue for her speeches. She feels that reading off a screen at the back of…
The Spectator’s Notes
Birmingham Checking in to my hotel room on the 18th floor, for the Conservative party conference here, I opened the…
