Boris Johnson
The truth about the government and ‘herd immunity’
I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s reporting on company chief executives who didn’t understand the distinction between mine…
How will Carrie cope with the hideousness of Chequers?
Zut alors! The court of King Boris gets more like Versailles each day. With some talcum powder on that ramshackle…
Carrie Symonds and the First Girlfriend problem
One of the least attractive aspects of American politics is epitomised in the ‘Office of the First Lady’. The office…
The difference between private and public conversation
Like almost everyone else writing on the subject, I have no idea whether Boris Johnson told colleagues in October that…
How Tory MPs plan to clip Cummings' wings
On 26 May, Dominic Cummings will give evidence to MPs grouped on the health and science super committee, chaired by…
Why the Cummings row won't harm Boris
It’s hard not to agree with those who believe that Boris Johnson, forced into the second Covid-19 lockdown, did say the…
Joe Biden's skewed climate change priorities
It’s not hard to see why politicians like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson want to talk about climate change. First…
Does anyone doubt Boris's leaked 'bodies' comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Boris's vaccine propaganda film jumps the gun
Westminster’s much anticipated summer blockbuster dropped last night: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’ was released on 10…
Alan Duncan rants about ‘idiot’ parliamentary colleagues and Britain’s waning influence
As a budding political apparatchik, my first job out of university was as a junior parliamentary assistant to Alan Duncan…
Can Boris Johnson's green makeover woo red wall voters?
COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference due to be held in Glasgow, isn’t until November, but work is already…
Boris is right to scrap televised press briefings
It may have been drowned out by the collapse of the European Super League last night, but for the government’s…
Boris scraps daily White House-style briefings
Boris Johnson has axed plans for televised White House-style press conferences. The announcement came six months after Allegra Stratton was unveiled…
Why Boris was so reluctant to cancel his India trip
Just a few hours after Boris Johnson confirmed that his trip to India had been postponed, the country has been placed…
The return of Tory sleaze?
‘It’s the return of Tory sleaze’: so said Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. His was an assertion…
How Boris eclipsed Cameron
Remember the days when David Cameron was the sleek young prime minister who had brought to an end 13 years…
Spectacular invective: Jonathan Meades lets rip about Boris and Brexit
The title alludes to Jonathan Meades’s first collection of criticism, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, and to the album by…
The deafening rise of ‘background’ music
The unstoppable rise of ‘background’ music
The green games: the Prime Minister’s big plan to rebrand Britain
Boris Johnson’s Olympic ambitions for the COP26 summit
David Cameron has done nothing wrong
To paraphrase the old adage, truth can still be pulling on its boots when a misconception is already half way…
Boris on liberty: the PM has always been against ID cards – until now
The PM has always been against ID cards… until now
Boris will need Labour support for vaccine passports
No prime minister wants to be dependent on the opposition to get the government’s business through the House of Commons.…
Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it's showing
The biggest question facing Boris Johnson at this evening’s press conference was so-called vaccine passports. Plans for his scheme were…
Johnson takes the next step out of lockdown
When Boris Johnson first unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown, there was a promise of an end to restrictions by 21…
Talking down vaccines is a short-sighted tactic
How strange to have spent a year in a world where to hug someone outside of your household is not…
