The Week
Portrait of the week: Brexit complications, avocado woes and London knife crime
Home Brexit exerted ever stranger effects on politics. After an eight-hour cabinet meeting, Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said she…
Piers Morgan: why, as a former Remainer, I’d now back Leave
I voted Remain, and still don’t think Brexit is a good idea. However, if there were to be a second…
Supreme but not respected
From ‘The disconsideration of the House of Commons’, 5 April 1919: The House of Commons is legally supreme in the…
Can ancient Greek comedians tell us how to leave the EU?
Since comedians these days seem to be the authorities on all matters spiritual and temporal (puts on funny voice, knife-crime…
How is the country split over Brexit?
German customs The original customs union, or Zollverein, was established by Prussia along with 17 other states which make up…
Letters: The Brexit chaos isn’t David Cameron’s fault
About the Bible Sir: I was confirmed by Richard Holloway as a schoolboy at Fettes College, and then taught by…
The absurdity of censoring anti-vaxxers
It is not hard to make the case that vaccination programmes have been one of the greatest contributions to mankind…
Portrait of the week: Brexit games, Trump’s win, and the EU stops the clock
Home The House of Commons voted to take Brexit business into its own hands, passing by 329 to 302 an…
Pints and pretty girls: my week with the March to Leave
I’m famed for my mustard cords. Back in 2013, the press mockingly dubbed my campaign trips around the country in…
The maddest road signs from around the world
Silly signs The Department for Transport ordered councils to remove ‘obsolete and unnecessary’ road signs. Some examples of the art…
The fake names on the Remain petition are nothing new
The petition calling on the UK to remain in the EU has garnered 8,000 votes from Jacob Rees-Mogg and 700…
Letters: Theresa May is definitely not the worst ever PM
Still better than Cameron Sir: I disagree with your editorial (‘Agony prolonged’, 23 March) that Theresa May is the worst…
The Conservative Party bears the most blame for the Brexit mess
For many people, next Friday was supposed to be a celebration. Boris Johnson spoke about an ‘independence day’ marking the…
Portrait of the week: Brexit delay, terror in NZ, and a very expensive pigeon
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, wrote to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, asking for a delay…
Douglas Murray: will we have a country left after Brexit?
It isn’t easy getting around the Gulf these days. The blockade on Qatar means no direct flights from most of…
Unlike MPs, Cicero understood the meaning of sovereignty
The problem with Brexit is that parliament is not designed to do what the people have commanded it to. MPs…
The biggest explosions in history
The march of time If we leave the EU on 29 March, with which historic events will that date be…
Australian letters
Uninspired Sir: As an Australian pessimistically into his eighth decade I’ve been dutifully voting since the age of 21. Partly…
The Tories are squandering the opportunity of Brexit
In all the madness of the Brexit voting, it’s easy to forget that Philip Hammond revealed a mini-Budget this week. Even…
Portrait of the week: government defeat, the spring statement and a fatal airplane crash
Home The government was defeated by 149 votes — 391 to 242 — on the EU withdrawal agreement presented by…
George Osborne: My campaign to Make Hancock Great Again
The best thing about the Evening Standard going to print at lunchtime is that we can be first to a…
Will no-deal Brexit fears lead to cheaper flights?
Cox’s codpiece Attorney general Geoffrey Cox returned from Brussels without even a ‘codpiece’, the name used by some Tories for…
As the Romans knew, eternal life is hopeless without eternal youth
A research professor has pointed out that lengthening human lifespan threatens to turn us into living zombies unless we can…
Australian letters
Virulently proportional Sir: James Allan’s rhetorical assault on Jacinda Ardern suffers from a plethora of boringly familiar trans-Tasman prejudices. To…
Why MPs must hold their nose and back May’s Brexit deal
It is becoming painfully clear that on Tuesday the House of Commons will be asked to vote on an EU…
