Brexit
Dear Mary: Should my widowed mother and her boyfriend get separate beds?
Q. I was interested in the advice given to the niece who owed £30 (12 March). A more direct option,…
Osborne’s Budget brings politics home again
George Osborne used to tell his aides to prepare every budget as if it were their last: to throw in…
How George Osborne’s budget bolsters the case for leaving Europe
Give thanks for George Osborne — and I don’t say that because I happen to be writing this column on…
Why leaving the EU wouldn’t make Britain any more free
‘Out’ campaigners picture leaving the EU as a liberation. It wouldn’t be
George Osborne can still see off Boris Johnson. Here's how
When George Osborne last stood up to deliver a budget, he had reached his post-election apotheosis. His economic (and political)…
To believe in Brexit, you have to be an oik like me or Michael Gove
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Spectator letters: What might have been for young Boris and Dave
What might have been Sir: Harry Mount points out that Boris Johnson is two years older than David Cameron (Diary,…
Will David Cameron pull his pro-EU punches to help the Tories reunite?
If Downing Street’s calculations are correct, next week will see politics begin to return to normal. We’ll all move on…
Of course the old Tory hatreds are back. That’s referendums for you
Of course it’s vicious. It was always going to be. Sure, they’ve spent decades living peacefully side by side, but…
Inside the Tories' EU dogfight
The Brexit campaign has only just started to demonstrate its strength
How Brexit would affect British farmers
How would British farming change without EU subsidies?
I'm voting 'leave' to go back to the 1970s. What's wrong with that?
I don’t remember the last European referendum being nearly as dramatic as the current one. In 1975, we were being…
Cameron’s first EU referendum battle: shutting up his own MPs
On the day that David Cameron delivered his Bloomberg speech, the 2013 address in which he committed himself to a…
Brexit campaigners remind me horribly of Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Front
We are all of us to some degree prisoners of our own experience. Experience may teach, of course — may…
If there’s a crash now, the markets will have done it to themselves
All this talk of a new financial apocalypse, so soon after the last one, is starting to annoy me. Partly…
What Brexit would look like for Britain
Life outside the EU would be good for Britain
The micro-businesses that give me hope for Belfast
At Stormont on Saturday, we observed a minute’s silence for the dead of Paris. Our conference group of Brits and…
Charles Moore’s notes: Grexit isn’t like Brexit (and that’s why it won’t be allowed to happen)
People write about ‘Grexit’ and ‘Brexit’ as if they were the same, but they need not be. Grexit is about…
Ten myths about Brexit
Don’t believe the scare stories about leaving the EU