Gove

What does Michael Gove want?

4 October 2022 7:22 am

Tory conference has long been more stage-managed than other party meetings, but this year the official speeches from ministers have…

Gove backs Kemi Badenoch for prime minister

11 July 2022 6:11 am

Michael Gove has endorsed Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader. Badenoch, who was one of his junior ministers at the Department…

Gove gets into gear

13 November 2021 2:06 am

‘This government ends if the red wall reverts back to type and we lose 45 seats then end up in…

Charles Moore’s Notes: people who love making new laws like to present them as human rights

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Amnesty International and others have placed a large newspaper advertisement telling Michael Gove ‘Don’t Scrap Our Human Rights’. The ad…

Not all knowledge is equal

30 August 2014 9:00 am

I first locked horns with Michael Rosen, the former children’s laureate, on Sky News about four years ago. We were…

Our spies have stopped chasing subversives. That's why we're in so much trouble

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Peter Clarke’s powerful report on the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham schools is confirmation of the weakness of David Cameron…

Have David Cameron’s Etonians just given up on state school reform?

19 July 2014 9:00 am

During his time as Education Secretary, Michael Gove would often have occasion to quote a passage of Machiavelli: ‘There is…

Andrew Marr's notebook: Rescued by Jonathan Ross

14 December 2013 9:00 am

We live by simple stories. X has a stroke. X recovers; or doesn’t. But we live inside more complicated stories.…

Toby Young: Tristram Hunt, the Spectator's 'Newcomer of the Year'?

16 November 2013 9:00 am

I love The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year Awards. On the face of it, they’re a great advertisement for just…