EU
How not to handle an independence referendum
If David Cameron seeks any testament to his handling of Britain’s difficulties with Scottish separatism, the mess that Spain is…
Italy’s Brexit moment
Though he is a big fan of the European Union, Barack Obama brings bad karma to it. So perhaps he…
The Spectator’s Notes
‘No one can seriously deny that European integration brought an end to Franco-German conflict and has settled the German question…
If only they could vote…
Britain’s animals would be solidly for Leave. Here’s why
Plutarch and the EU
Boris Johnson argues that the current European Union is yet another failed attempt to replicate the golden age of a…
The Spectator’s notes
Obviously there is no such thing as ‘Cameronism’, as there is ‘Thatcherism’; but once upon a time, David Cameron did…
Warning: top-performing funds are highly likely to contain tobacco
Axa will no longer invest in the tobacco industry: the French insurance giant will sell €184 million of shares and…
The power trap
What British ‘influence’ and EU ‘power’ really mean
Barometer
Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…
What’s making Remain campaigners so tetchy?
Like a lot of keen games-players I’m a stickler for the rules. This is not because I’m an especially honourable…
Poles apart
Poland is furiously divided – but it’s not in the grip of ‘hyper-nationalism’
Nicholas the miraculous
Miracles are not ceased. A few years ago, a kindly educational therapist took pity on John Prescott and set out…
The Spectator’s notes
One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…
Vaping’s appeal isn’t about the nicotine. It’s about the gadgets
Probably you never visited the flats of middle-class student drug dealers in the 1990s, because crikey, neither did I, and…
Have we sacrificed a quarter’s growth to answer the European question?
Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…
Turkey’s triumph
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Let’s renew the EU
There is more to the idea of Europe than narrow economic considerations. The Remain side needs to say so
Diary
I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
Henry III vs EU law
It is no surprise that the laws imposed on the UK by a European parliament in Brussels should so infuriate…
Brexit Tories are feeling disrespected. How awful
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
The unlikely oilman
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
If you’re riding the FTSE rebound you might still want to sell in May
When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…
He speaks for America
Don’t fool yourself about the anti-Brexit consensus in the US – or the excellent reasons for it
Just join Germany
It’s the only part of the EU that’s really worth our while
Whoever invented referendums needs a kicking
My favourite quote of the year so far comes from the author Fay Weldon. ‘If this were an all-woman society,’…
