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The purpose of Boris Johnson’s Queen’s Speech
Normally a Prime Minister uses a Queen’s Speech to lay out their government’s legislative agenda for the year ahead. However,…
Can ministers really hold their nerve on Brexit this week?
Boris Johnson is now in what’s known in cricket as the ‘Nervous Nineties’, when a batsman becomes so anxious about…
If Boris does a Brexit deal, it will be because of the ‘Surrender Act’
Will he strike a deal with the EU allowing Britain to leave this month? Will he compromise on the Irish…
Is a deal really possible?
It is one of the most remarkable turnarounds in recent political history. On Wednesday afternoon, the Brexit talks seemed pretty…
When Jacob Rees-Mogg met Extinction Rebellion
I walked down Villiers Street to Embankment Tube station. In front of me were two Extinction Rebels, a mother and…
Brexit party voters will decide Boris Johnson’s fate
The fate of Boris Johnson’s premiership will be determined by Nigel Farage and the Brexit party. Even if a Brexit…
Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth
Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack, but Joe Biden’s campaign may be the casualty. The 78-year-old Sanders’s physical condition renewed…
Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change
This year’s Nobel Prize for the silliest piece of scientific research must go to something called the Climate Accountability Institute,…
Is Putin winning the war in Ukraine?
‘The Ukraine Affair’ involving Donald Trump was front-page news across the world this month – but not in Ukraine itself. There…
Donald Trump’s shameful Syrian betrayal
Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria is one of the most shortsighted foreign policy miscalculations in recent memory.…
Will Greta Thunberg win the Nobel Peace Prize? I really hope not
We’ve begun to behave as if young people are special; more virtuous and wiser than adults. It’s wrong and it’s…
Tories fret over further election delay
Members of the One Nation caucus of Conservative MPs met with Boris Johnson this afternoon over concerns the party could…
Revealed: David Cameron’s ‘Gove protocol’
When Michael Gove was welcomed back into government this year and appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, some wondered…
Extinction Rebellion is a menace
It’s tempting to laugh at Extinction Rebellion. I do it myself frequently. Those yoga sessions on Westminster Bridge. The amateur…
Thwarting Brexit probably won’t stop Brexit
What if they succeed in thwarting Brexit? The odds seem weighted against Boris Johnson delivering his do-or-die (-in-a-ditch) promise to…
Boris Johnson takes on extinction rebellion at book launch
To the launch of the final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher at Banqueting House. A mix of…
Can Boris Johnson survive if he breaks his Brexit promise?
It gives me no pleasure to report this of my former Daily Telegraph colleague, but some people who know Boris…
Emmanuel Macron will regret his failure to crack down on Islamists
It beggars belief that Mickaël Harpon was employed as a computer expert in the intelligence department at police HQ in…
Let’s give Extinction Rebellion protestors what they want
Extinction Rebellion’s leaders have arrived in London by fossil-powered train, car and bus – brandishing their mobile phones full of…
Why Boris Johnson’s Brexit offer is probably dead
The word habitually used by EU negotiators to characterise Boris Johnson’s Brexit offer is “uncertainty”. They talk of “uncertainty” about how the…
Is a Brexit deal now off the table?
Is a Brexit deal agreed before October 31st a realistic possibility? Technically talks between the UK and EU are ongoing…
The BBC’s Brexit coverage is a disgrace
Lord Patten, rejected by voters 27 years ago, is the embodiment of a smug un-elected elite. As former chairman of…
The terror of the witches of modern India
When I landed in Delhi at the height of the monsoon, the excitement in the city was palpable. The Indian…
Romney Republicanism could never win
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. As Donald Trump strides toward his fourth year in…
Boris Johnson will have to win a majority to get the EU to engage with his Brexit plan
The Brexit talks between the UK and the EU are making very little progress. Number 10 say that there is…
