David Cameron
Diary
What a week! I was thrilled to have a chance to confront Nick Clegg but my excitement was tempered with…
David Cameron, oracle
Nigel Farage rather missed a trick in his debate over the EU with Nick Clegg. The Prime Minister has promised…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that inheritance tax ‘shouldn’t be paid by people who’ve worked hard and saved…
Investment: Be tech savvy
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
Gove’s friends are out to get him
From the moment he took his job, Michael Gove knew that he would make energetic and determined enemies. The teachers’…
Kidnaps and killings in Cameron’s happy place
A few days ago I went to a talk about Syria; one of those events for the concerned layman, in…
The dawn of four-party politics
Two things will make the next general election campaign quite unlike any previous election in this country. The first is…
Only Angela Merkel can save Cameron now
British politicians still prize a visit from the President of the United States above all others. Yet no American President…
Cameron’s watershed moment
It is all hands to the pump in Downing Street. The entire No. 10 operation from the Prime Minister down…
Diary
As any author will tell you, literary festivals differ widely. If you are invited to Willy Dalrymple’s Jaipur Festival, with…
The 100-year plot
To understand the real meaning of the EU, you must grasp that it originated in the first world war, rather than the second
Transparency is the Tories’ greatest legacy to the NHS
Pinned to the wall of Jeremy Hunt’s office in the Department of Health is an A1 piece of paper detailing…
Why aid fails
David Cameron’s favourite authors on what the government gets wrong about tackling poverty
Portait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that English local authorities would be allowed to receive all the business rates…
Cameron’s mission for 2014: stay out of third place
European elections are normally an afterthought in British politics. As even David Cameron admits, most of us struggle to remember…
When scaremongering stops being funny
My grandmother, Nanny Nancy, is 99 and going strong. But it can’t be denied that while she’s all there mentally,…
Diary
David Cameron gives Old Etonians a bad name. Critics deplore his Old Etonian-ness, his Lord Snooty Factor. Childish, but it’s…
Once more, the spectre of Enoch Powell is raised to stop debate about immigration
One of the genuine seasonal pleasures to be enjoyed as 2013 slipped around the U-bend was Enoch Powell making his…
Sri Lanka: High tea in the Hill Country
Alex Massie relaxes amid lush lawns and eccentricity
The Speaker could soon be silenced
John Bercow could go down as a great reforming Speaker of the House of Commons. It’s thanks to him, in…
The next election will break all the rules
Ed Miliband’s aides used to scurry around the parliamentary estate, their shoulders hunched. A look in their eyes suggested that…
Diary
ONE OF THE MINOR sociological treats of being appointed shadow education secretary is a frontbench view of David Cameron’s crimson…
Rise of the man-hug
Have we gained from abandoning the handshake?
Court chronicler for the coalition
There are two ways of being a political journalist. One is to stay on the outside and try to avoid…
Diary
The looming centenary of the outbreak of the first world war offers an opportunity to break away from the Blackadder/Oh!…
