Boris Johnson
Corbyn puts the EU referendum on a knife edge
No one watching Jeremy Corbyn walk around the Palace of Westminster would imagine that he had just won the Labour…
The Corbyn enigma
How do you solve a problem like Jezza?
Last orders
The fight to save the Gladstone Arms is the fight to save London
Boris’s waiting game
While the Labour party rakes over its past in an effort to find a policy for its future, the commentators…
Edinburgh round-up
Propaganda is said to work best when based upon a grain of truth. Ukip! The Musical assumes that most electors…
Osborne rules
The Chancellor has Westminster in his grip
Portrait of the week
Home Parents would be able to have their children’s passports removed if they were suspected of planning to travel abroad…
Portrait of the week
Home At least 30 British people were among 38 shot dead at a beach resort at Sousse in Tunisia by…
Diary
My husband says I only write books in order to have a launch party. Not so. I also write books…
Portrait of the week
Home Talha Asmal, aged 17, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, died in a suicide bomb attack on forces near an oil…
The green house effect
Buying an eco-home? Expect stifling springs and summers
Which behaved worse: callous Thomas Cook or cynical Barclays?
Which is worse, morally and reputationally — to be Thomas Cook, shamed by its refusal to show proper human concern,…
One-nation Boris
Whoever wins the election, the London Mayor is going to be all right
Boris’s London legacy
Jack Wakefield on the Mayor’s ambitious, not to say whimsical, vision for the Olympic Park
Long life
I sometimes try to imagine what it would be like being a political leader. I find this difficult because I…
The long goodbye
In January 1958, the British government began working on the significantly titled Operation Hope Not: its plans for what to…
Gagging order
Why has politics turned into stand-up?
The election where everyone loses
Whatever happens on 7 May, both main party leaders face disaster
What’s behind the Boris show?
To interview the Mayor of London is to witness an extraordinary performance
Signs that the virtual mob is starting to rule
Are we heading for a new barbarism? Is this the return of the 18th-century mob? Here are more questions than…
Stoptober makes me sick
Say what you like about the French Revolutionaries but at least they had a poetic imagination. When they wanted a…
Letters
Breaking the unions Sir: By the time this letter appears we shall know whether the land of my birth has…
Boris Island and Pericles’ port
During his lecture on Athens at the Legatum Institute (see p. 22), Boris Johnson placed great emphasis on Athens’ development…
Applause for the Beeb’s new leading lady – but did the male runner-up deserve such a kicking?
Hats off to Rona Fairhead, the former Financial Times executive who will succeed Lord Patten as chairman of the BBC…
Portrait of the Week
Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that Britons who went to Syria or Iraq to fight could be stripped…
