Isabel Hardman

Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and edits the Coffee House blog. She also presents Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.

Boris and Scholz parade the new Europe

9 April 2022 3:00 pm

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed Europe forever. That was the argument that Boris Johnson made on Friday when he…

Are we falling out of love with the NHS?

30 March 2022 9:20 pm

Clap for carers now feels like ancient history. Public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest since 1997, according…

Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender

29 March 2022 11:54 pm

What do you remember about Tim Farron’s time as Lib Dem leader? Was it the position he created for his…

What lessons can Britain learn from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ordeal?

22 March 2022 12:01 am

‘How many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home? Five?’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken for the first…

Why is Britain so useless at helping Ukrainian refugees?

9 March 2022 9:05 pm

Some MPs were in tears yesterday when President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Commons, and understandably so, given the…

No-fly zones won’t work, but what about aid to Ukraine?

2 March 2022 9:43 pm

Vladimir Putin’s forces are encircling the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol, and a 40 mile-long convoy of Russian armoured vehicles…

Ending restrictions won't save Boris

22 February 2022 4:37 am

Boris Johnson certainly managed to rally the troops on their first day back from recess this afternoon as he told…

PMQs: Boris's anger over new partygate picture

10 February 2022 12:20 am

The takeaway moment from today’s PMQs came not in the main exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer but…

Boris Johnson is running out of options

8 February 2022 9:24 pm

The No. 10 operation’s decision to double down on the Starmer/Savile row after the Labour leader was accosted in the…

Boris is finished — it’s when, not if

4 February 2022 7:13 am

This week, Michael Gove’s lengthy Levelling Up white paper talked about the ancient city of Jericho. This was largely because…

PMQs: Boris doubles down on Jimmy Savile claims

3 February 2022 12:35 am

Today’s PMQs suggests that some of the immediate heat has gone the partygate crisis, if only temporarily. Sir Keir Starmer…

Johnson's defence deteriorates

1 February 2022 3:50 am

That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…

A Graywash? Downing Street party report is merely an ‘update'

1 February 2022 1:30 am

Sue Gray’s report on the lockdown partying in Downing Street is short. Just 11 pages. Early on, it makes clear…

A rather pointless PMQs lets Boris off the hook

27 January 2022 12:09 am

Given the extraordinarily low expectations, Prime Minister’s Questions went reasonably well for Boris Johnson today. That is partly because it…

The curious timing of Boris Johnson's Covid announcement

20 January 2022 1:05 am

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist who mutters regularly about ‘sheeple’ to find the timing of Boris Johnson’s…

Pills to post

8 January 2022 9:00 am

The antivirals taskforce is at the ready

Boris Johnson rejects lockdown (again)

5 January 2022 5:27 am

Boris Johnson latest Covid press conference was slightly confusing. The Prime Minister spent nearly an hour saying nothing particularly new.…

Boris Johnson’s friendship problem

3 January 2022 6:48 pm

Boris Johnson is hoping that his MPs have calmed down over the Christmas break and that this term will be…

Boris suffers huge Tory revolt over vaccine passports

15 December 2021 6:16 am

Boris Johnson has just suffered a large majority-busting revolt in the House of Commons over vaccine passports, with 98 Conservatives…

Labour is the real winner of tonight's vote

15 December 2021 3:33 am

Sajid Javid found himself wading through treacle as he tried to make the case for the government’s ‘Plan B’ to…

Boris takes his colleagues for fools

9 December 2021 7:15 am

Is Boris Johnson really deploying a ‘diversionary tactic’ in announcing vaccine passports on the day he has had to perform…

Boris throws his staff under the bus

9 December 2021 12:16 am

What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…

Boris's booster bet

1 December 2021 4:06 am

Boris Johnson is relying heavily on the booster programme to protect Britain from any additional threat posed by the Omicron…

Johnson is making the sleaze row worse

17 November 2021 10:30 pm

Is there anyone left in the Conservative party who is happy with Boris Johnson? The Prime Minister has now managed…

The sleaze row isn't finished yet

15 November 2021 10:28 pm

Number 10 will have been relieved that the weekend did not bring new stories about Conservative MPs raking in lots…