Brexit
My straw polls say the ‘leave’ campaign is failing to make a clear economic case
In every gathering, someone — often me — calls for a show of hands on Brexit. And I have to…
Feminists for Brexit
Britain is trapped in a bad marriage with the EU. It’s time to leave
Directions your phone can’t give you
In many ways a satnav is a miraculous device. A network of US military satellites more than 10,000 miles above…
Dear Mary
Q. I was interested in the advice given to the niece who owed £30 (12 March). A more direct option,…
Budget brings the focus back to Britain
George Osborne used to tell his aides to prepare every budget as if it were their last: to throw in…
Why 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…
Vote for freedom!
‘Out’ campaigners picture leaving the EU as a liberation. It wouldn’t be
Osborne can still see off Boris
When George Osborne last stood up to deliver a budget, he had reached his post-election apotheosis. His economic (and political)…
Want to leave the EU? You must be an oik like me
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Americans for Brexit
President Obama thinks it’s in all our interests for you to remain part of the EU. This is why he’s wrong
Letters
What might have been Sir: Harry Mount points out that Boris Johnson is two years older than David Cameron (Diary,…
Will Cameron pull his 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…
Better that the Americans take over the London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is no longer the red-hot crucible it once was, given the multifarious ways by which shares,…
The Tory dogfight
The Brexit campaign has only just started to demonstrate its strength
Out on the farm
How would British farming change without EU subsidies?
Vote ‘leave’ and stop the blurring of Britain
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…
From Rhexit to Brexit
We are all of us to some degree prisoners of our own experience. Experience may teach, of course — may…
Apocalypse now? Markets seem set on a self-fulfilling prophecy
All this talk of a new financial apocalypse, so soon after the last one, is starting to annoy me. Partly…
What Brexit looks like
Life outside the EU would be good for Britain
The view from my Belfast bus: tribalism as the enemy of prosperity
At Stormont on Saturday, we observed a minute’s silence for the dead of Paris. Our conference group of Brits and…
The Spectator’s notes
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
