Diary
My part in Jair Bolsonaro’s downfall
Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
It’s good to be back on the back benches
After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
Inside the Booker Prize
It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
Putin should fear those closest to him
I was interested to see that amid the Byzantine intrigues of embattled Conservative panjandrums, two Spice Girls have criticised the…
I feel sorry for Kwasi Kwarteng
In Singapore last week, I was asked: do ministers just come in, reach for the dumbest available policy and go…
War has come home to Russia
Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…
Volodymyr Zelensky is a hero of our time
When the Queen died, I was on my way to Kyiv. My mind focused on the war in Ukraine, I…
Memories of Princess Elizabeth
I am completely and utterly devastated by the passing of our wonderful, inspirational Queen, as I’m sure are so many…
Kwasi Kwarteng is a politician from a different age
Liz Truss doesn’t waste energy on unnecessary emotion. At the announcement of her victory at the QE2 Centre, she ditched…
My Ibiza diary
You wait 11 years for a Tory leadership election and then three come along in quick succession. The first in…
Why political interviews matter
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
When did everyone get so angry?
I love Suffolk, not just for its beauty but for the stories to be found all around me. Every day…
What’s the point of the NHS if it doesn’t work?
We left prepared. Bottles of water, protein snacks, phone chargers, portable Scrabble (even the teenagers can look at the internet…
They do things differently in the Cotswolds
The Season has ended and – apart from The Spectator’s summer bash of course – the two bang-up parties of…
Why Liz Truss shouldn’t be PM
Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
My life as a political spouse
When I was a teenage Tory activist in the mid-1990s, I hoped one day I’d be part of a leadership…
Boris’s final days in No. 10
‘So what did he say?’ I asked the ministerial friend who went to tell Boris last week he had to…
Boris, Sherwood and the politics of the past
It feels like the end, but we’ve been here before. The past months of Boris Johnson’s teetering administration have felt…
What Starmer can learn from Scholz
I made it through the airport crush to Berlin at the beginning of last week to see how Germany is…
