Miliband
We columnists have never been more useless
It takes some agility to shoot yourself in the foot and saw off the branch you’re sitting on, while hoisting…
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…
Swing time
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era…
Miliband vs Millwall
I’ve been trying to think of a good football analogy to describe the battle between the two main parties as…
How to make a political party vanish
The establishment drive to marginalise Ukip has been under way for three months now, and it has having its effect.…
Portrait of the week
Home In a Budget intended to have ‘no gimmicks, no giveaways’, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, offered pensioners…
What Miliband needs is a grilled tomato
My children have a phrase called ‘fomo’ — which stands for ‘fear of missing out’. It is a constant, mildly…
Stand up for Britain’s Jews
What our political leaders would say if they really cared about halting anti-Semitic attacks
French suicide
The desperate state of its politics seems to signal the end of the Republic
Barometer
Judges in jail Barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice…
Rebels without a cause
Things could scarcely be going better for the Conservatives. Every week seems to bring more news of the recovery. High…
The Spectator’s Notes
When I interviewed Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France, for my biography of Margaret Thatcher, I asked him…
Join my campaign to save the country
This is going to be the year I do my Flash Gordon routine and launch a campaign to save the…
Investment: Power failures
Politics makes it hard to pick winners in the energy sector
Hugh Grant’s censorious friends may be about to win the day
It is a peculiar alliance, when you think of it, which wishes to bring to an end 300 years of…
The awkward truth about democracy in action
After David Cameron’s decision to seek parliamentary approval for air strikes against Syria, two lobbies came charging in, banners aloft.…
No one else will say it. But right now, both Milband and Cameron are heroic
It is within the experience of even the humblest of MPs that those who oppose what you do will berate…
Nick and Dave are ready to rumble. Ed, on the other hand …
The coalition parties have governed together for more than three years now, but they remain culturally very different beasts. When…
