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.

In search of Mayism

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

What does Theresa May believe? The new Prime Minister has had the summer to settle into her job and has…

Frankenstein’s Westmonster

27 August 2016 9:00 am

All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…

Frankenstein’s Westmonster

25 August 2016 1:00 pm

All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…

Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown

13 August 2016 9:00 am

Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…

Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…

May’s man of influence

16 July 2016 9:00 am

Civil servants in the Home Office, even the senior ones, always felt a little nervous when walking towards Theresa May’s…

Labour can't learn from its mistakes. Here's why

14 May 2016 9:00 am

By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…

Will Labour never learn?

12 May 2016 1:00 pm

By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…

Zac's campaign is as good as over; Labour will retake London

9 April 2016 9:00 am

The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…

Do the Tories want to lose London?

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…

What Muslims think

28 November 2015 9:00 am

Polls suggesting that they sympathise with terrorists are misleading

‘Perhaps we needed to tip the whole thing over’: Jon Cruddas on Jeremy Corbyn's Labour

19 September 2015 8:00 am

Jon Cruddas is still looking for ways to renew his party.They’re unlikely to please his new leader

Yes, Syrian children need foster homes. But so do British ones

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Pity the refugees, but think of our own abandoned children

Think Cameron’s small majority will hold him back? Not with his new army of loyalists

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy of backbench…

Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thereturnofassisteddying/media.mp3 Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy…

Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back

22 August 2015 9:00 am

Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power have you…

Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back

20 August 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thecleaneatingcult/media.mp3 Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power…

Labour's already running out of time to regain its lost voters

15 August 2015 9:00 am

The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…

Time is running out for Labour

13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/chinasdownturn-labourslostvotersandthesweetestvictoryagainstaustralia/media.mp3 The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated…

Whoever wins the Labour leadership, Blairism is at death’s door

1 August 2015 9:00 am

The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an uneasy truce…

The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/theosbornesupremacy/media.mp3 The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an…

Meet the Tories’ Welsh Wizard: an interview with Stephen Crabb

18 July 2015 9:00 am

Stephen Crabb, the working-class Welsh Secretary with a fondness for Margaret Thatcher

Andy Burnham interview: 'I wanted a different approach, because I'm mainstream Labour'

14 March 2015 9:00 am

Andy Burnham on the NHS, ‘mainstream Labour’ and his party’s leadership