Boris Johnson
Brexit means Boris
A few months before he died in 2007, Bill Deedes asked if I would come to see him at his…
Boris Johnson: Why we should chuck Chequers
Surely there is a bit of humbug in this outrage about the two remaining jihadi Beatles, Kotey and Elsheikh, and…
Portrait of the week: Theresa May’s Brexit deal in doubt as Boris Johnson and David Davis resign
Home Boris Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary the day after David Davis resigned as Brexit Secretary, both in reaction to…
This is Brexit in name only to keep the plebs happy
My wife has decided she likes Dominic Raab, the latest poor sap to be despatched from a hamstrung, spasticated government…
The anatomy of a Spectator summer party
I flew from Marseille to Gatwick, rode the Gatwick Express to Victoria, and walked down the thoroughfare of Victoria Street…
From Jeeves to Johnson: language and literary references in Boris’s speech
In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, Bertie is moved to reward his inestimable valet for solving the unsolvable. Before requesting the…
The Brexit Breakdown
Theresa May’s Brexit challenge is truly Herculean. Every time she believes she has done enough to finally move the Brexit…
It’s a jungle in there, Stanley
Crikey Moses! Stanley Johnson has been cast as the token pensioner in the new series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me…
Why Kenya matters
Laikipia Flying home across Laikipia’s ranchlands with Martin after a farmers’ meeting, I see the plateau dotted with cattle…
Diary
I used to long for mid-October when I could say goodbye to the hot rooms, cold buffets, and warm white…
Boris, the conviction politician
I’m writing this from the Conservative party conference where I can report that Boris Johnson, who has just wowed the…
Diary
The best reason for visiting party conferences is to sniff the air. It’s fragments of conversation drifting through a bar,…
Diary
Boris Johnson is inspecting the guard of honour and we are doing our best not to giggle. The Foreign Secretary…
Low life
My mother has various chronic illnesses and finds it almost impossible to remain both immobile and awake during the day.…
Forget London’s ramshackle Garden Bridge: bring on Nine Elms-to-Pimlico instead
I can’t work up much indignation at the collapse of London’s Garden Bridge project, which has been strangled by the…
High life
I switch personalities at Spectator parties, depending who the guests are: for our readers’ tea party, I am a warm…
Long life
It was a famous American editor and columnist Michael Kinsley who once defined the political ‘gaffe’ as something that occurs…
This referendum has shown us the real Cameron
Westminster has a tendency to get ahead of itself. MPs want to discuss the aftermath of an event long before…
Portrait of the week
Home In the Queen’s Speech, the government made provision for bills against extremism and in favour of driverless cars, drones,…
What’s making Remain campaigners so tetchy?
Like a lot of keen games-players I’m a stickler for the rules. This is not because I’m an especially honourable…
Nicholas the miraculous
Miracles are not ceased. A few years ago, a kindly educational therapist took pity on John Prescott and set out…
Enter Boris, eyes on the prize
After an eight-year detour into municipal government, Boris Johnson has now returned to national politics. The former mayor of London…
A toe-curling tragedy
Zac Goldsmith’s London campaign was an embarrassment
The Spectator’s Notes
‘England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines…
Brexit Tories are feeling disrespected. How awful
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
