Nick Wood

Follow the factions. That’s the best way to understand the Conservative Party leadership race – and to pick the winner. Around a dozen candidates – representing a spectrum of Tory…

“Lord, make me chaste – but not yet,” St Augustine famously said, as he sought to postpone his appointment with Christ’s demanding moral code. Much the same can be said…

Boris Johnson faces another date with destiny. In a few months, the poor man has already seen off Jeremy Corbyn, the EU and its massed ranks of domestic fifth columnists,…

Will British general election campaigns ever be the same again after the Covid-19 pandemic? And will the Conservatives be the long-term beneficiaries of the crisis? Since time immemorial, Labour’s strongest…

We are flying blind. We are like a pilot at the controls of a plane with no instruments, no radar and only thick cloud for company. Is that a mountain…

Back in the days of our imperial splendour, Prime Minister Palmerston summed up British foreign policy as well as anyone. “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual…

You would have to have lived in a cave for the best part of the last decade not to have been aware of Brexit.  The subject has consumed British politics…

As a small boy, Boris Johnson confided to his sister that his ambition in life was to be “world king”. Global domination may still be a distant prospect for the…