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…
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Brexit was meant to usher in the Apocalypse. According to our more hyperbolic leaders, war, famine, plague and death would stalk the land if the British people had the temerity…
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“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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…