General election 2015
Letters
Bees vs Belgians Sir: To answer Rory Sutherland and Glen Weyl’s question: yes, everyone should vote and no, just because…
A voting system that’s past it
The defence of the Westminster first-past-the-post voting system is that while it’s certainly unfair, it delivers decisive results. A relatively…
Miliband’s tablet of stone may cost him my vote
You have the advantage over me. You know the result of the general election, whereas I do not — a…
My nominee for politician of the year: the honourable member for Athens B
After the heat of battle: the accolades, the recriminations, the telling of history by the victors. It’s six months early…
The disunited kingdom
This was the Scottish election. Where next for the Union now?
Scotland’s nasty party
If the SNP isn't about Scottish purity and hating the English, why do so many of its supporters behave as if it is?
‘Mili-what? Who’s he?’
What opinion polls feel like from the other end of the line
Is satire a dying art?
I appeared on Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago to discuss the age-old question of whether political satire is…
The right choice
When election day dawns, it’s worth bearing in mind that two million more people will be going to work than when…
Portrait of the week
Home The British economy grew by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, the slowest quarterly growth for…
Diary
I have escaped this rather depressing election campaign by retreating to my home in la France profonde — to be…
Letters
An instinctive Tory faith Sir: For once Bruce Anderson does not exaggerate: David Cameron did indeed win golden opinions for…
Warning: this column may soon be illegal
A couple of weeks back I wrote an article headed: ‘Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour.’ Among the many…
The British public is about to make a big mistake
On the weekend of 25 April 2015 I started to believe that the party I supported might not win an…
Russell Brand is the future, like it or not
I write at a difficult time. The balls are in the air, but we know not where they will land.…
Only the Tories can meet the aspirations of Ikea’s hard-working families
If Ikea were a constituency, it would be a three-way marginal. That was my thought one morning last week as…
Miliband country
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
Vote Tory
Five Spectator contributors on why they’re voting for Cameron (and one on why he isn’t)
Mansion migrants
The super-rich can shrug off Labour’s big tax idea. People like me will be forced out
Plan Bee
What the hive knows about democracy that humans have yet to learn
Reuniondues
A couple of weeks ago I returned to my old Oxford college for a ‘gaudy’ — posh, Oxford-speak for a…
Square meal
The Portrait Restaurant lives at the top of the National Portrait Gallery, London. It is fiercely modern, but likeable. You…
The other union
The election campaign is becoming increasingly dominated by a small party whose raison d’être is to preach independence from membership…
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
Barometer
Any answers? Nigel Farage accused the audience in the BBC opposition leaders’ debate of being left-wing. Need insulting an audience…
