Brexit
France's provocateur is coming to London
Five years ago, London’s affluent French poured their dosh into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. This time around, supporters of…
Lucy Ellmann is angry about everything, especially men
Is Lucy Ellmann serious? On the one hand, yes, very. The novel she published before this collection of essays was…
How Boris can save Northern Ireland
Over the past few weeks and months, there has been plenty of focus on the Northern Ireland Brexit Protocol, and…
Boris's Brexit deal isn’t worth sacrificing Northern Ireland for
There will be chaos at the borders. Food will run out at the supermarkets. Travellers will face long queues, and…
Keir Starmer's fundamental problem
Half a century ago, Willie Whitelaw accused Harold Wilson of ‘going around the country stirring up apathy’. I can think…
The EU's Brexit bill doesn't add up
A dozen hospitals. A hundred million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and a lot more of the Oxford one. Or…
Marxism, football and Trump’s demise: Tom Holland and Francis Fukuyama in conversation
Tom Holland and Francis Fukuyama on Marxism, football and Trump’s demise
The sausage war ceasefire is a good sign for UK-EU relations
The sausage dispute between the UK and the EU may sound like something out of Yes Minister but it is…
I’m calling my removal from office ‘the great betrayal’
I’ve always maintained I go to Fermanagh for sanity, and after the past few months, I need a return to…
French democracy is in trouble – and the EU is to blame
France’s airwaves have been crackling with indignation this week, as politicians wring their hands at the record abstention in the first…
Revealed: How the UK-Australia deal was struck
The UK’s first bespoke trade deal agreed since leaving the EU was finalised with Australia over two dinners. One took…
Television, not social media, is fracturing our society
All it took for the Twitter mob to descend on me was a retweet from Michael Gove. Message after message…
The real value of the Australia trade deal
If Britain had been unable to agree a trade deal with Australia, then Brexit really would have been pointless. The…
Is the EU breaching its UK treaty by failing to protect LGBT rights?
Has the EU Commission lost any sense of moral value? This week, Hungary, an EU member state, voted to impose…
The EU's debt bondage expansion
In the global market for government debt, worth an estimated $92 trillion (£66 trillion), it amounts to little more than a…
Brexit, lockdown and the fracturing of British politics
Is our society becoming less tolerant and more viscerally tribal? Or is our politics provoking people into committing more angry…
The protocol may be Boris's greatest masterstroke
The jibes thrown at Boris Johnson over his unhappiness with the Northern Ireland protocol — based on the obvious observation…
We don't have to swap sovereignty for trade
A new court will be established with powers over both countries. Labour and product laws will be harmonised. Flags with…
Keir Starmer is alienating both sides in the Brexit debate
What is it with Labour and Brexit? An issue that during Theresa May’s premiership looked like it could rip the…
Boris Johnson's Northern Ireland problem
In an at times grouchy press conference, Boris Johnson tried to calm the row over the Northern Ireland protocol. The…
Why this G7 summit matters more than most
It’s risky planning a trip to the British seaside at any time of year. But if the weather forecast is…
It’s time to revisit the Northern Ireland protocol
Britain has already seen two ‘Brexit days’ — when it formally left the EU on 31 January 2020 and the…
Biden proves that Trump was a true British ally
Now that Joe Biden has landed, many Brits may now be realising what a stalwart friend you had in Trump. Within minutes…
Joe Biden doesn't understand Northern Ireland
Even a pessimist could be forgiven for being surprised by Joe ‘I’m Irish’ Biden’s ham-fisted intervention in the ongoing row…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
