UKIP
The Spectator’s Notes
‘Twenty-six million people in Europe are looking for work. And whose jobs are they after?’ asks the Ukip poster for…
Diary
What a week! I was thrilled to have a chance to confront Nick Clegg but my excitement was tempered with…
The class that got left behind
In the 2010 general election, Ukip gained nearly a million votes — over 3 per cent — three times as…
Has Ed Miliband’s luck finally run out?
Ask anyone in Westminster about the obstacles to a Tory victory in next year’s election and you’ll hear a well-rehearsed…
Death does not become us
Shortly after Bob Crow’s death was announced on Tuesday, Nigel Farage sent the following tweet: ‘Sad at the death of…
Diary
Last October, in these very pages, I wrote with what is now annoying prescience, ‘Like almost everyone else in the…
You shouldn’t lose your children for disagreeing with Boris Johnson
Do your children have a bleak and nihilistic view of the world? It’s hard to tell, really, when they spend…
Real life
A letter arrives from David Cameron, asking me to vote by post in the European elections. Presumably he means vote…
The dawn of four-party politics
Two things will make the next general election campaign quite unlike any previous election in this country. The first is…
Rebels without a cause
Things could scarcely be going better for the Conservatives. Every week seems to bring more news of the recovery. High…
Portrait of the week
Home Six months of talks in Northern Ireland, chaired by Dr Richard Haass, a retired American diplomat, ended without resolving…
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…
If no one makes the case for the Union, how can we win?
Next year will decide the fate of the United Kingdom. The Scottish independence referendum on the 18th of September could…
Rural revolt
The shires feel deeply abandoned by Cameron and the Conservatives
The Tories would be mad to cuddle up to Ukip
Such is my respect for Spectator readers that I offer you a column whose subtext is in Latin. Ours is…
Letters
Party politics Sir: I don’t think it is true that I would be unhappy in any party, as Ross Clark…
Name of shame
The importance of not being Nigel
Ukip are playing it safe – so they’ve rejected me
So farewell then £80,000 salary, £150,000 expense account, secretary, team of assistants, constituency office, first-class travel, immunity from prosecution, Brussels…
