UKIP
Barometer
Election omens Reasons for Ed Miliband to feel confident in 2015: — Only three parliaments since 1945 have run to…
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…
This year, I’m keeping my ambitions modest
This time last year, I wrote an article saying my main project in 2014 would be to unite the right.…
The age of indecision
A recent email from Samantha Cameron started an intriguing debate in the Prime Minister’s social circle. It was an invitation…
What’s behind the Boris show?
To interview the Mayor of London is to witness an extraordinary performance
A new deal on immigration
The crisis is real. And we can solve it without leaving Europe
Dear Mary
Once again Mary has invited some of her favourite figures in the public eye to submit personal queries for her…
What you’re not allowed to say about divorce
Would you find it difficult to remain friends with someone if he or she suddenly revealed that they intended to…
Bear necessity
‘Please look after this bear,’ reads the famous label hanging round Paddington’s neck, and this film does that, admirably, handsomely,…
After the Tea Party
America’s right wing is becoming a lot more like Britain’s
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…
Left in the lurch
Thanks to globalisation, ‘progressive’ politicians have nowhere to turn
Ukip is a party for people who hate London. That’s why Labour should be scared
It is interesting that neither Scotland nor Wales have been much bitten by the Ukip bug. The supposedly sensible view…
No safe haven
Britain’s appalling record on refugees is a moral failure, and national disgrace
Ukip’s third man
Patrick O’Flynn praises ‘genius’ Nigel Farage, and puts Douglas Carswell in his place
How to fight Ukip
In the 2005 general election this magazine supported the Conservatives, with one exception — we urged voters in Medway not to…
Why ostracism beats Ukip
For all Nigel Farage’s appealing bluster, he is never going to be in a position to get us out of…
The quiet revolutionary
Rand Paul combines a dull, reassuring manner with a Ukip-like insurgent appeal. It could take him to the presidency
It’s not just Ukip that’s changing Cameron’s mind about immigration
It is easy to mock David Cameron on immigration. Under pressure from the public and from Ukip, he’s having to…
Calling Cameron’s bluff
I don’t think the PM will really campaign for an EU exit. But he still has the best chance of getting one
Learning compromise the hard way
I’m often asked by other free school proposers what lessons I’ve learnt over the past five years. Any pearls of…
Portrait of the week
Home Checks began at British airports for passengers who might have come from west Africa with Ebola fever (even though…
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…
Ukip has turned itself into a confidence trick
I think I’ve cracked it. If you want to springboard your minor political party into the mainstream and take British…
Online comments help me understand the Nazis
Matthew Parris 18 October 2014 9:00 am
Like many, I’ve always been a bit baffled by the story of the rise of Nazism. The Germans I’ve met…