Boris Johnson will regret standing by Dominic Cummings
Boris Johnson is a populist who no longer understands the populace. Dominic Cummings pretends to be an anti-elitist but cannot…
Coronavirus's forgotten victims
I am hearing stories about people with disabilities that make me feel ill. Visitors to care homes (parents and siblings,…
How to save our nightlife after coronavirus
The one certainty about crisis is that it makes bad situations worse. Anyone working in restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs…
Bailing out Richard Branson comes with a big price
Richard Branson is asking British taxpayers – a club he resigned from when he moved his affairs to the lax…
Whatever happened to parliamentary democracy?
In the middle of a national crisis, Britain has become a parliamentary democracy without a parliament. The police now have…
Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?
Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…
Boris’s main opposition is his party’s ageing demographics
If you want to see why Britain’s future will be so decrepit, look at the dramas on ITV. Unlike the…
Labour’s far left is a personality cult without the personality
The Labour left that has dominated radical culture since 2015 appears to have had a stroke. Its candidates for the…
A new leader won’t stop the far left’s domination of Labour
The far left controls the Labour bureaucracy, its National Executive Committee, its policy making, manifesto writing, many of its constituency…
The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline
The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The…
The Troubles with Brexit
At times, it can be hard to avoid the preachy style of reviewing that talks to readers in the tone…
How our biased electoral system could change British history
Last night’s report in the Financial Times that Nigel Farage is considering a pact with Boris Johnson has terrified what…
Extremists have taken over the two main parties
Both main British parties are now characterised by intolerance of dissent, leader worship and racism. You can take a historical…
Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy
Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels…
Revealed: Tom Watson’s secret plan to oust Jeremy Corbyn
The phrase ‘existential crisis’ is thrown around too easily. But it is hard to find a better description of the…
Why Tories are hooked on Boris Johnson
Modern politicians are like drug dealers intent on keeping their clients’ hooked. They sell fixes to their core voters: upping…
Corbyn isn’t working – and Labour is being picked apart by its new enemies
Protestors on the anti-Brexit marches have sensed an eerie absence. ‘What is it?’ I thought back in March as I…
The twisted truth about Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party pretends to stand for the traditional values of old England: Parliamentary sovereignty, patriotism and decency. However little…
The Corbyn crack-up
To say that the May administration is ‘the worst government anyone can remember’ is to abuse the English language. It…
It’s not easy being a Corbynista Jew – just ask Jon Lansman
Being a Jew on the Corbyn left is soul- crushing. In the name of the cause, you must excuse racism…
In the face of strongmen, conservatives are letting their principles vanish
In 1989, the year Soviet communism collapsed, John O’Sullivan, Margaret Thatcher’s former speechwriter, gave the world O’Sullivan’s First Law of…
Watergate
Enough has been written about a Conservative government that knows its electoral success depends on Britain remaining a property-owning democracy,…
Left in the shadows
In the early hours of 9 June 2017, Jeremy Corbyn conceded defeat. For the luckless political journalists forced to cover…
Why journalists should boycott the Comment Awards
Nick Cohen 3 November 2018 9:00 am
Shortly before his death, the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm wrote that capitalism crushed the integrity of artists and intellectuals. Assessed…