Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can…

Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that,…

In the language of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, futa (I’m told) means ‘river’ and leufú means ‘big’. So Spanish–speaking…

You’ll recall that I’ve railed for years against zero interest rates, which transplanted a cancerous marrow into the very bones…

I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president…

The paradox of Rishi Sunak’s premiership is that even though he became Prime Minister because of the economy, it’s the…

I would be very happy if I never had to hear the name Gary Lineker again. He was a vague…

This week Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win Best Actress at the Oscars – and not by playing…

There was a kind of peak BBC Radio 4 moment last week when the network put on a play called…

Rishi Sunak started the year with a speech announcing his five priorities. That was quickly followed by Keir Starmer, who…

I am at a bit of a loss to understand the hoo-ha about the civil servant Sue Gray. She has…

I have never met Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council, but I have not the least doubt…

Look, I realise you don’t want to read this column. I’m unenthusiastic about writing it. For most of us, any…

‘Coad. Coad.’ I wracked my brain. Distant bells began to tinkle as I turned the name over. As though performing…

When Rishi Sunak appeared in the House of Commons to outline the details of his new agreement on the Northern…

You want some tomatoes? Come up here, we’re inundated. We’ve got a tomato mountain. That’s because nobody in the north…