Nigel Farage
Why Britain riots
Riotous summers seem to occur in Britain with about the same frequency as sunny ones: roughly every decade. Sometimes it’s…
Letters: why I’m voting Reform
Back to 1976? Sir: Your leading article perfectly reflects the public’s attitude to the manifestos of the major parties (‘Challenging…
What’s the worst that can happen for the Tories?
When Rishi Sunak stunned his cabinet colleagues by calling a snap election, they feared the worst. Fast forward a month…
The problem with flexible working
Lots and lots and lots of fuss about betting on the general election. Less attention is paid to the biggest…
Milkshake me!
Nine days of campaigning to go and I haven’t been milkshaked yet. I’ve hung out near McDonald’s in the hope…
How to lose voters
During the 1983 general election, I campaigned every single day with great zeal and avidity. I knocked on quite literally…
Would you want Nigel Farage to marry your daughter?
The opposite of attraction is repulsion. Political commentary gives too little attention to a party’s (or leader’s) capacity to repel.…
Reform wants the Tories destroyed
There was a very excitable young man on Sky News last week, talking about the Sky/YouGov MRP poll which suggested…
The hypocrisy of the Farage outcry
Much heartened by the barrage of criticism I’ve been receiving from both Spectator and Times readers, I’m returning to the…
The Spectator’s Notes
We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…
Coutts, Farage and the trouble with choice
Dame Alison Rose should not have resigned as head of NatWest over the Nigel Farage affair – and ministers who…
The liberal case for Nigel Farage
After ‘it’s not happening’, ‘it may be happening, but for different reasons’, and ‘would it be such a bad thing…
PEP talk
How Boris made me a threat to Mexico
From Neil to Nigel: the descent of GB News
I can’t claim to know any behind-the-scenes rivalries or boardroom brouhaha motivating Andrew Neil’s departure from GB News but I…
France’s provocateur is coming to London
Five years ago, London’s affluent French poured their dosh into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. This time around, supporters of…
The Lib Dems’ Vince Cable China problem
Last night, Vince Cable appeared on Nigel Farage’s ‘Talking Pints’ segment on GB News. This, if you haven’t seen it,…
Nigel Farage is destroying his own legacy
How’s this for a terrible confession? There has always been a small part of me that admires Nigel Farage. As…
The danger of mocking Nigel Farage
He’s gone. Again. Even casual watchers of UK politics will be used to Nigel Farage quitting…and then returning.But this time,…
Looking back at Brexit
Robert Tombs’s new book is not long: 165 pages of argument, unadorned by maps or images. But brevity is good,…
Nigel Farage’s China curveball should worry the Tory party
I have lost count of the number of times the Conservative Party has thought it has shot Nigel Farage’s fox.…
Diary
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a useful stop for journalists looking for some rust-belt Americana not too far from New York. The…
