Diary
Will Boris Johnson break up the Union?
I spent the early part of last week in London, filming what are known in the television trade as PTCs…
History will wonder how we trusted Boris with Britain
I am besieged by media folk asking when I shall make good on a four-year-old threat to flee to Buenos…
Simon Schama: I’m on tour – singing. Yes, seriously
It was when the kindly folk at the Theatre Royal Haymarket said ‘You’ll be in Paul Whitehouse’s dressing-room’ that it…
Everything under the sun: The glory of garden centres
Don’t you just love garden centres? You have to be mad to go on a sunny Sunday morning in the…
History will be kinder to Theresa May than we have been
Recording the BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures has brought me to five cities and five styles of questioning. Cardiff had…
A presidential pardon for my ‘miraculously shrinking crime’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
As a gay Jewish man I did not expect to be spat at in a west London street
There are many places where a gay Jewish couple wearing yarmulkes wouldn’t feel comfortable walking down the street. I didn’t…
Paul Mason: The Brexit party is great news for Labour
Multiple copies of a Labour leaflet for the European elections are being shared on messaging apps by horrified activists. Not…
Call her Nancy: how David Cameron tried to change my name
Sometimes life takes an unexpected turn. So it was for me a few weeks ago when, driving up the A1…
Helen Lederer: The day I went viral in the Claridge’s lavatory
The best moment of my Easter ended up being an impromptu debate with the delightful comedian Sarah Millican about the…
Roger Scruton: Should I forgive the journalist who got me fired?
I travel back from London with the St Matthew Passion filling my head, after the moving performance from the Elysian…
Roger Stone: I will be vindicated
Undisclosed location, Florida In January, when heavily armed FBI agents swarmed my south Florida home to arrest me for a…
Piers Morgan: why, as a former Remainer, I’d now back Leave
I voted Remain, and still don’t think Brexit is a good idea. However, if there were to be a second…
Pints and pretty girls: my week with the March to Leave
I’m famed for my mustard cords. Back in 2013, the press mockingly dubbed my campaign trips around the country in…
Douglas Murray: will we have a country left after Brexit?
It isn’t easy getting around the Gulf these days. The blockade on Qatar means no direct flights from most of…
George Osborne: My campaign to Make Hancock Great Again
The best thing about the Evening Standard going to print at lunchtime is that we can be first to a…
Might George W. Bush be the last Republican president in American history?
John McDonnell might think Churchill a villain, but he’s beloved in America. I’ve just returned from a ten-week, 18-state, 27-city,…
Alan Johnson’s diary: I’m not sure I’d have had the guts to join a new party
The separation between ‘members’ and ‘strangers’ always struck me as being one of the most archaic aspects of the House…
Maybe I should get naked during the next Brexit protest, too
A choppy week sitting in for Piers Morgan again on Good Morning Britain. One nude studio guest, a sprinkling of…
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Jess Phillips: The message I’ve been forced to send Luciana Berger too many times
‘You OK?’ was the message I sent to Luciana Berger last week. As I scroll back through our previous WhatsApp…
Why Dior loved the English
‘There is no other country in the world, besides my own, whose way of life I like so much,’ enthused…
The story of Alex Salmond is (far) stranger than fiction
For legal reasons I shouldn’t say much about the Alex Salmond case, but it does bolster the argument that the…
In defence of Fiona Bruce
Will I be allowed to take my dog to Europe after 29 March? A trivial question, you might think, in…
It’s not communist buildings that are bleak – it’s capitalist budget hotel chains
A few of us on the Labour left decide to see if it is possible to conjure, from nowhere, a…
If anyone knows May’s secret plan, it’s Philip
As a hack who lived and breathed the financial crisis, you might think that at the start of 2008 and…
