Nigel Farage
Can Reform reform?
Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent…
Plato would know why Farage attracts chancers
The problem with Nigel Farage is that he seems to be something of a chancer and, as a result, tends…
How to defeat Reform on immigration
It’s now 24 years since I started writing about the urgent need to reform or quit the asylum provisions of…
On the hunt for corruption at Reform party conference
As seen in the Guardian It’s the end of the hottest summer in British history, and the business reception at…
Portrait of the week: barbecues are banned, Burnham is fooled and Farage wins Clacton
Home The temperature reached 38.1ºC at Kew Gardens, Surrey. In the West Midlands a wildfire at Stourbridge burnt down 19…
Revealed: the feuding at the heart of Reform
If Tolstoy had written about British politics, he might have noted: ‘Happy parties are all alike; every unhappy party is…
Politicians’ contempt for the press is contempt for the public
I was hacked by the Chinese a few years ago. Security at News UK, where I was employed on the…
Why Nigel Farage’s ‘Australia-style’ border policy is doomed to fail
When I served as Australia’s High Commissioner in London, I was naturally flattered by how often British politicians and officials…
Farage needs to decide if he wants to govern – or just campaign
Nigel Farage’s likely victory in the Clacton by-election will be a hollow one. The major parties boycotted the contest: of…
‘He’s either the Messiah – or the Antichrist’: on the campaign trail with Nigel Farage
‘We love you, Nigel!’ In Clacton-on-Sea, there is little sign that the Reform leader’s star has waned. Campaigning with Farage…
I was targeted by a killer – but I’m still against more security for MPs
Reason, David Hume noted, is a slave of the passions. Arguments, especially political crusades, are often rooted in emotional responses,…
Restore’s unstoppable rise to power
As seen on X ‘Subversive.’ With this word I sign off my vitriolic X reply to Beth Rigby, who has…
Does Nigel Farage think he’s above scrutiny?
If Nigel Farage is so confident that the £5 million donation he received from a friend is entirely kosher, why…
Letters: bring on devolution
The right kind of devolution Sir: Your leading article ‘The Burnham Question’ (11 July) suggests that the putative prime minister’s…
Prince Harry and Nigel Farage have more in common than they might like to admit
At about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, two cases with a common characteristic coincided. One was Nigel Farage’s long statement about…
Why doesn’t my daughter enjoy bonking?
As seen in the Times ‘You young people, I don’t even know where to start!’ My phone call to my…
What Farage can learn from the anti-Trump playbook
In January this year Dominic Cummings – once of this parish – warned The Spectator’s editor and assistant editor that…
Reform is right to fear the return of Boris
The man from Reform had barely sat down at our table at the French bistro when he leant forward conspiratorially…
The death of two-party politics has been greatly exaggerated
Every twist in the winding road of our politics brings a latest thing to say. These wisdoms usually survive a…
The rise and rise of Australia’s Nigel Farage
Sydney For three decades, Australia’s political Establishment has been predicting Pauline Hanson’s demise. But whenever critics tried to administer the…
‘Rupert Lowe turns up for work; Nigel Farage doesn’t’: an interview with Kemi Badenoch
There was a moment backstage, before I interviewed Kemi Badenoch for a Spectator event this week, when I felt like…
Why gentlemen relish Kemi
As seen in the Telegraph Two thoughts on the sad and controversial death of Henry Nowak. The first is about…
Why does Farage care if he’s on Desert Island Discs?
The big revelation in Lord Ashcroft’s forthcoming biography of Nigel Farage is that he’s been banned from Desert Island Discs.…
Henry Nowak’s murder isn’t about Farage and the ‘far right’
While Britain is still reeling from the horrific murder of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, an astonishing article has appeared in El…
