Nigel Farage
How Orbán duped the Brexiteers
To the inhabitants of the British Isles, the nations of central Europe have always existed in a semi–mythical space, near…
The horror of post-Brexit Britain: Perfidious Albion, by Sam Byers, reviewed
Edmundsbury, the fictional, sketchily rendered town in which the action of this novel takes place, is part of a social…
Ukip is back thanks to the Chequers backlash
The UK Independence Party might be about to make a comeback. Ever since Theresa May’s Chequers deal on Brexit, which…
This is Ukip’s Britain. The rest of us just live in it
The continuing saga of Henry Bolton’s notional leadership of Ukip continues to amaze and amuse and appal in equal measure.…
It’s not just Donald Trump, the right is tearing itself apart everywhere
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
A puzzle for President Obama: is it really that British to queue?
The language that President Barack Obama used was evidence of skulduggery, Nigel Farage declared. ‘The UK is gonna be in…
Cameron’s first EU referendum battle: shutting up his own MPs
On the day that David Cameron delivered his Bloomberg speech, the 2013 address in which he committed himself to a…
Why the next Tory leader is likely to be in the ‘Leave’ camp
Here is a thought for all those Tory MPs calculating their personal advantage in the forthcoming EU referendum: unless the…
Everything has gone right for the Eurosceptics. So why are they in crisis?
Eurosceptics could hardly have asked for more favourable conditions for a referendum. After barely surviving a financial crisis, the European…
Can Cameron really offer the best of both worlds in the EU referendum?
By this time next year Britain will, if the government has its way, have voted on whether or not this…
The transatlantic flirtation behind Ukip’s sudden meltdown
Nigel Farage’s special relationship with an American website, and its part in his party’s sudden meltdown
Peter Oborne’s diary: My Pakistan cricket tour, and what the ‘no’ campaign needs
For the first time since the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team six years ago, a Test match side…
Like every referendum ever, this EU vote will solve nothing
I suppose, if you could look deep into the mind of somebody who was passionately keen that Britain should leave…
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
'One nation' politics works. Just ask Nicola Sturgeon
As David Cameron lined up beside Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband at the Cenotaph on the day after the general…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Portrait of the week
Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
What happens to politicians who insult the audience? Ask Dan Quayle
Any answers? Nigel Farage accused the audience in the BBC opposition leaders’ debate of being left-wing. Need insulting an audience…
The awful rise of 'virtue signalling'
Why do the right thing when you can simply say the right thing?
Birmingham Royal Ballet review: A Father Ted Carmina Burana
We ballet-goers may be the most self-deceiving audiences in theatre. Put a ‘new work’ in front of us and half…
How Ukip became the incredible disappearing party
The establishment drive to marginalise Ukip has been under way for three months now, and it has having its effect.…
What Ukip wants: get Farage elected, then prepare for a Labour collapse in the north
Inside the party’s Mayfair headquarters
UKIP: The First 100 Days, Channel 4, review: a sad, predictable, desperate hatchet job
Just three months into Ukip’s shock victory as the party of government and already Nigel Farage’s mob are starting to…
Nigel Farage’s diary: How I survived Dry January
Dry January is tougher than it sounds. Well, for me anyway. It’s now been some 28 days since I’ve had…
Send in the clowns - how comedy ate British politics
Why has politics turned into stand-up?
