Boris Johnson
Portrait of the Week
Home The government put its mind to the puzzle of how to get people back to work. Draft advice was…
Pasture
‘We can now see the sunlight and the pasture ahead of us,’ said Boris Johnson on our escape from a…
Is the PM an example of why those with Covid-19 should be hospitalised earlier?
There is so much to ponder in the prime minister’s interview about how Covid-19 almost killed him. But, in respect…
Portrait of the Week
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, returned to work at Downing Street after recovering from his Covid-19 sickness. Speaking outside…
A difficult path
The route out of lockdown won’t be smooth – or fast
Cavalier approach
This April was indeed the cruellest month, at least for those of us banged up in cities. From the country…
Diary
When the post office and stores closed in our village on Exmoor, my youngest stared out of the car window…
How the lockdown could be modified
We’ll get a fairly detailed plan from the PM next week encouraging businesses to start operating again, public transport to…
The radical history of The Spectator
A newspaper – it would be more than 100 years before it became a magazine – calling itself a spectator…
Biden is the American Boris
We all know which American politician Boris Johnson is supposed to most closely resemble. Comparisons between the prime minister and…
Low life
In 2001, aged 44, I was hired to write a weekly column for this august paper, and for the first…
The case for trust
Our Plan is entirely new, comprising – 1. The whole News of the Week: selected, sifted, condensed and arranged as…
Diary
The vocabulary of Brexit has passed into oblivion. Now there’s fresh work to be done. We all know about ‘flattening…
An infectious uncertainty
I had thought that actually getting the coronavirus would bring clarity — that there would be some satisfaction in meeting…
Who is in charge of the government?
Boris Johnson is still officially recuperating from coronavirus at Chequers and is ‘not doing government work’, according to No. 10.…
What the country needs most is Boris Johnson back at his desk
Boris Johnson has been out of action for almost a fortnight. His last meaningful act before going into hospital was…
The communitarian Conservatives
Politics is full of events that are meant to change everything but actually do little. Yet the coronavirus crisis will…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people with the coronavirus disease Covid-19 who had died in hospitals by the beginning of the…
Diary
When two members of my family went down with what appears to be Covid-19, I felt concerned. What I hadn’t…
High Life
Gstaad So the days — and months — drift by. This once peaceful Alpine town is packed with rich refugees…
Portrait of the Week
Home The number of people who had died from the coronavirus disease Covid-19 in the UK by Sunday 5 April…
The Spectator’s Notes
It is good of President Trump to offer Boris Johnson his best wishes and the best American pharmaceuticals (though no…
There is no end in sight yet
We have never had a moment like this before in our history: a time when the Prime Minister is, in…
Britain needs you, Boris
The extraordinary man I’ve known for 35 years
Boris Johnson moved out of intensive care
The Prime Minister has this evening been moved out of intensive care but remains in hospital. After being moved on…
