Mark Reckless
What Ukip wants
Inside the party’s Mayfair headquarters
An unhealthy consensus
There’s an irony about Ukip’s rise. Nigel Farage party’s popularity is driven by a widespread sense that the main parties…
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words ‘Vote Mark…
How to fight Ukip
In the 2005 general election this magazine supported the Conservatives, with one exception — we urged voters in Medway not to…
If Labour wins the general election, Ukip’s rise will be unstoppable
British politics is rather like one of those playground games of football where one match is being played lengthways and…
Portrait of the week
Home The Commons, having been specially recalled, passed, by 524 votes to 43, a motion supporting ‘the use of UK…
Mark Reckless
When I first heard ‘Wonderwall’ being played in a public house, in 1995 I suppose, I thought it was some…
