Carrie Symonds
Portrait of the Week
Home Freelance scientists urged the government not to end coronavirus regulations on 21 June, for fear of a third wave.…
Boris’s media critics are missing the real story
The five most frustrating words a journalist can hear are: ‘This is not a story’. Over the years, I have…
Zac Goldsmith, No. 10’s rapid rebuttal service
It’s a tough gig defending this government. So tough in fact that the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson Allegra Stratton left…
My truth
I heard them rowing again this morning, look you. I had just completed my first dump of the day in…
Welcome to the Office of the First Girlfriend
One of the least attractive aspects of American politics is epitomised in the ‘Office of the First Lady’. The office…
Carrie Symonds and the cult of rewilding
Carrie Symonds is to join the Aspinall Foundation as its new head of communications, in a move very much on-brand…
Real life
Now that our social lives are a Venn diagram that only mathematicians can understand I am officially becoming a recluse.…
Blowing in the wind
With Cummings gone, which way will the PM turn now?
Princess of Whales
Inside the court of Carrie Symonds
Portrait of the week
Home After a Cobra emergency meeting about the coronavirus Covid-19, when the number of cases in the United Kingdom had…
In defence of trophy hunting
‘Why would anyone want to destroy something so beautiful, then stuff its poor lifeless body to keep as some kind…
Paul Dacre: I made Boris Johnson cry
So the party of family values has chosen as leader a man of whom to say he has the morals…
The shameful hounding of Carrie Symonds
Who’s really harassing Carrie Symonds? We have no proof that her boyfriend Boris Johnson is. One surreptitiously recorded late-night row…
Dear Mary: what do you do if you spill red wine on a sofa?
No matter how much you loved Boris you would find it maddening if he spilled red wine on your sofa. …
Boris has to get out of Camberwell
Well! Just when it looked like the only political question anyone would be talking about is the start of the…
Can Boris Johnson’s ‘little otter’ make him woke enough to win?
Philip May seems a decent cove. He’s been stoic and loyal but I can’t help hoping that the next prime…





















