Brexit
The EU referendum has shown us the real David Cameron
Westminster has a tendency to get ahead of itself. MPs want to discuss the aftermath of an event long before…
How Leave can win (or at least lose with honour)
It may be too late. But with only about three weeks before our referendum on EU membership I am itching…
Brexit, George Osborne, and the art of post-factual politics
The Chancellor and PM are using every dirty trick in the Blairite book to win a Remain vote
The great EU power trap
What British ‘influence’ and EU ‘power’ really mean
My day as the only Eurosceptic at the finishing school for Europe’s elite
I was in Paris last week to take part in an EU referendum debate at Sciences Po, a French university…
Sorry, Chancellor, but the economic argument for the EU has not been won. Here’s why
A Ryanair plane in a Stansted hangar was not the best backdrop for George Osborne’s claim that the economic argument…
Potrait of the Week: prisons to be ‘academies’and West to arm Libya
Home In the Queen’s Speech, the government made provision for bills against extremism and in favour of driverless cars, drones,…
300 signatures can be wrong. How about 2 million?
Name check 306 business people signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying that Britain would be better off outside…
Don’t rule out Referendum Two: the Tory ‘Leave’ genie’s out of the bottle
As the Queen read out her government’s agenda on Wednesday morning, David Cameron could have been forgiven for thinking about…
Why do the vicious Remain campaigners value emotion over reason?
Like a lot of keen games-players I’m a stickler for the rules. This is not because I’m an especially honourable…
How Nairobi gangsters would vote in the EU referendum
Nairobi The gangsters hadn’t heard of Brexit. ‘What is this “Breaks it”?’ they asked my friend hours after kidnapping…
Nicholas Soames’s Twitter account is a miracle (and so is his diet)
Miracles are not ceased. A few years ago, a kindly educational therapist took pity on John Prescott and set out…
Why Nato is more important than the EU for Britain
The Leave campaign was right to pour scorn on David Cameron’s warning this week that Brexit could threaten Europe’s military…
Brexit is already hurting growth – and George Osborne won’t mind a bit
Has the shadow of Brexit already cost us a slice of GDP — and if so, is it a blip…
Boris Johnson: Yes, I'd debate Cameron. I'd be a wimp if I didn't
The former mayor of London makes his case for Brexit
Voting Remain is an act of heartless snobbery
One of the interesting features of the Brexit debate is that it has laid bare a schism in British society…
Enter Boris Johnson, eyes on the prize
After an eight-year detour into municipal government, Boris Johnson has now returned to national politics. The former mayor of London…
Let’s vote ‘in’ to renew the EU, says Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
There is more to the idea of Europe than narrow economic considerations. The Remain side needs to say so
Leave campaigners aren’t being disrespected. They’re being paranoid
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
It’s not just Donald Trump, the right is tearing itself apart everywhere
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
I swear this is the last Marvel film I see: Captain America reviewed
Captain America: Civil War is the 897th instalment — or something like it — in the Marvel comic franchise. This…
We want an EU referendum, not a scare-story contest
So far the campaign for the EU referendum has resembled a contest as to which side can spin the most…
David Cameron is heading for a hollow victory in the EU referendum
‘Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won,’ wrote the Duke of Wellington after…
Warning: the FTSE100 isn’t out of the woods just yet
When the FTSE100 fell close to 5,500 in February, we all said ‘Mr Bear is back’. On Tuesday the index…
