Boris Johnson
The rail strikes could be the end of the line for Boris
Here I go again, in my occasional role as your intrepid transport correspondent. Last week I reported on airport chaos,…
Who monitors the moralists?
If anyone was suitable to be the Prime Minister’s adviser on ministerial interests, it was Lord Geidt. Self-effacing, professional, unself-righteous…
British politics is stuck
One of the favourite phrases of British political commentators is ‘oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them’. As with all…
Three cheers for booing in the theatre
Are modern theatre-goers too polite?
The Tories are picking inflation winners and losers
Inflation rose to 9.1 per cent on the year in May, taking the UK’s consumer price index to a 40-year-high.…
Boris is falling into the Macron trap
You can’t blame Boris Johnson for jetting off to Kyiv last week for another meet-and-greet session with Volodymyr Zelensky. He…
Another Boris diplomatic blunder
Boris Johnson has never been one of nature’s diplomats. Unconventional, irreverent, Brexit-backing and norm-defying, the blonde bombshell’s two-year tenure at…
The Northern Ireland Protocol is a problem Boris created
If Boris Johnson was elected on a single slogan, it was ‘Get Brexit done’. He then claimed it was done…
What Boris needs to do to survive
Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…
The game is up, Boris Johnson
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative and Unionist party is also a pretty lousy result for the country. That…
How Boris can cling on
What is happening in the UK right now is similar to the later Berlusconi years, the opera buffa phase of…
Is the fall of Boris inevitable?
A funny thing happened on the way to the cathedral for the service of thanksgiving to the Queen on Friday.…
Monarchy is the guarantor of democracy
Like many people who do not share his views, I have felt intermittent admiration for Peter Tatchell over the past…
Boris may be toppled by accident
Every Tory leader fears a plot against them. Their paranoia isn’t helped by the layout of Westminster, which lends itself…
Portrait of the week: Jubilee celebrations, energy bill discounts and a trade deal with Indiana
Home The Jubilee for the Queen’s 70 years on the throne was marked by two days of public holiday, 16,000…
Partygate is not going away
Tory MPs just want partygate to go away. The hope that the Sue Gray report would be the end of things…
Boris Johnson’s guilt
An ability to survive narrow scrapes has been one of Boris Johnson’s defining qualities. The pictures of Downing Street’s lockdown…
For Boris, the hard bit is just beginning
Boris Johnson has been plunged back into the mire of partygate. The publication of a photograph of Johnson raising a…
Are the Australian election results a bad sign for the Tories?
Scott Morrison’s Liberals were absolutely thrashed in the Australian elections this weekend. The party’s vote collapsed, and there were big-name…
Boris’s plan to divide and conquer
Boris Johnson has never quite been able to decide whether he wants to be a great unifier or a great…
My list of Britain’s national character flaws
Before we start, let’s firmly establish my long-standing affection for the United Kingdom. Why, some of my best friends are…
After Starmer: what’s next for Labour?
What’s next for Labour – and the Tories?
The quiet dignity of Angela Rayner
In those gentle days before internet pornography there was a book you could buy which listed the precise moment in…
Portrait of the week: Boris packs his bags, XR blocks bridges and Netflix viewers switch off
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons that it did not occur to him that the…
Workshy Whitehall: why can’t the PM get his civil servants back to work?
Too few civil servants are returning to the office
