Boris on liberty: the PM has always been against ID cards – until now
The PM has always been against ID cards… until now
Full text: Boris Johnson's Brexit deal speech
It is four and a half years since the British people voted to take back control of their money, their…
Why England is going back into lockdown
I’m afraid no responsible Prime Minister can ignore the message of those figures. When I told you two weeks ago…
Boris Johnson: Perhaps my campaign was ‘clunking’. But sometimes, clunking is what you need
You may wonder why I am up at 4.45 a.m. writing this diary when I have a country to run, Queen’s…
Full transcript: Boris Johnson’s speech on the steps of Downing Street
This morning I went to Buckingham Palace and I am forming a new government. On Monday MPs will arrive at…
Boris Johnson: I don’t want an election, you don’t want an election
Five weeks ago I spoke to you from these steps and said that this government was not going to hang…
Are we really going to abandon Brexit because of a Mars bar shortage?
The nice French doctor looked beadily at the screen. There were the results of my tests, in irrefutable detail. They…
Boris Johnson: Why we should chuck Chequers
Surely there is a bit of humbug in this outrage about the two remaining jihadi Beatles, Kotey and Elsheikh, and…
We need 10,000 tigers in the wild
I am here in India looking for tigers, and am struck by the way my fellow human beings respond to…
Girl power! Educating girls can fix the world’s problems
The world is blessed with a brilliant and industrious UN secretary-general, and it was certainly worth tuning in last week…
To a Turkish president
There was a young fellow from Ankara Who was a terrific wankera Till he sowed his wild oats With the…
Boris Johnson’s diary: Amid the China hype, remember Japan
Frankly I don’t know why the British media made such a big fat fuss last week when I accidentally flattened…
The secrets of London's Athenian golden age
The forces that made the world’s first democracy great are alive and well in modern London
'I laughed until I cried, then retched': Boris Johnson on the wit of Simon Hoggart
I really can’t remember exactly how I came to appoint Simon Hoggart the wine correspondent of this magazine, but I…
A tribute to Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Lady’s legacy is that, thank goodness, the free-market economy is the only show in town
Is my rod big enough? Boris Johnson’s fishing notebook
You remember the climax of Jaws — the primeval moment when Quint the crazed Ahab-like fisherman goes mano a mano…
