David Cameron
This really isn’t how Robert Mugabe would run a referendum
It is not what Robert Mugabe would do. Calm down. These are ‘spiv Robert Mugabe antics’, said the Tory backbencher…
Stop chasing the PM’s taxes: focus on the bad stuff that really matters
There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession…
Sex, lies, dominatrixes and tax returns - the sorry state of British scandal
The confected scandal around the Panama papers is part of a concerted and sinister attempt to change what counts as private
Trevor Phillips's documentary on Muslims was shocking - but not surprising
‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…
I confess it all... I’ve been dodging tax since the age of eight
As someone who still entertains hope of becoming a member of Parliament one day, I’d better come clean about my…
How to make the rich pay more tax
The 11 million documents leaked from Panama lawyers Mossack Fonseca tell us much that we know already. It’s hardly news…
A big hand for the two-faced tax hacks of the Guardian
Something odd happened at the Guardian on Monday as the paper’s editorial staff were basking in the glow of their…
How is Britain going green? By shutting down industry
A fortnight ago, the energy minister, Andrea Leadsom, declared grandly that Britain, alone in the world, would commit to a…
Who is the Tories’ ‘Stop Boris’ candidate?
Most MPs greet the parliamentary recess with a sense of relief. But Conservatives are welcoming this Easter break like the…
How Cameron and Osborne lost so much of their party
Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…
The Tories' Easter rising: inside the great Conservative crack-up
Months after a historic election victory, party unity is in pieces. What can Cameron do about it?
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…
The EU's deal with Turkey exposes the moral vacuum at its heart
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Jean-Claude Juncker speaks to Britain like a Roman emperor
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
Brexit is none of Mark Carney's business
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
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…
The murky origins of David Cameron’s new favourite phrase
‘They all laughed at Christopher Columbus,’ sang my husband flatly, ‘when he said the world was round.’ I wasn’t going…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Boris and Dave’s schoolboy rivalry is journalistic wishful thinking
The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…
Inside the Tories' EU dogfight
The Brexit campaign has only just started to demonstrate its strength
Britain to have ‘special status’ in the EU? Careful what you wish for…
‘Special status?’ said my husband. ‘You mean like executioners, butchers and undertakers in Japan?’ I hadn’t suggested that, but had…
Emma Thompson’s wrong about the EU and cake
At first glance, Emma Thompson’s intervention in the Brexit debate earlier this week didn’t make much sense. Asked at the…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…
David Cameron is presenting all the wrong arguments for staying in the EU
It is normally in the final, frantic days of a campaign that a multitude of dubious claims are made. But…
