David Cameron
Europe’s biggest Brexit fear? That we’ll flourish outside the EU
What do Europeans really think about Brexit? Do they secretly admire our unexpected decision to walk away from all those…
Politicians want to move us towards a cashless world. It would be a disaster
What could be more terrifying than a return to the 15 per cent interest rates with which homebuyers had to…
What to do about the returning jihadis
In normal times, the reported return of 400 Isis fighters to Britain would be the biggest story out there. But…
The Spectator’s notes
Theresa May’s style of negotiating with the European Union is coming spookily to resemble David Cameron’s. She is in the…
… and an awesome beak
The Enigma of Kidson is a quintessentially Etonian book: narcissistic, complacent, a bit silly and ultimately beguiling. It is the…
My beef with David Cameron
Insufficient attention has been paid to the history of naughty girls, who deployed allure to prosper in a male-dominated world.…
The turf
Having spent three quarters of my life covering politics and the other quarter following racing, I am often asked what…
Continental drift
It is a long time since the term ‘sick man of Europe’ could be applied to Britain. France is now…
Portrait of the week
Home Two British men were charged with immigration offences after the rescue by night of 18 Albanian migrants, two of…
Purge of the posh
Should employees be judged by their parents’ income?
Long life
It was a famous American editor and columnist Michael Kinsley who once defined the political ‘gaffe’ as something that occurs…
Portrait of the week
Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…
This referendum has shown us the real Cameron
Westminster has a tendency to get ahead of itself. MPs want to discuss the aftermath of an event long before…
Brexit, and the return of political lying
The Chancellor and PM are using every dirty trick in the Blairite book to win a Remain vote
Lies, damned lies and…
A Ryanair plane in a Stansted hangar was not the best backdrop for George Osborne’s claim that the economic argument…
Don’t rule out a second referendum
As the Queen read out her government’s agenda on Wednesday morning, David Cameron could have been forgiven for thinking about…
The Spectator’s notes
One of the many problems with David Cameron’s threat that leaving the European Union could plunge us into war is…
Boris needs you!
The former mayor of London makes his case for Brexit
Something to crow about
There’s no way of saying this without shredding the last vestiges of my critical credibility, but this new Ben Elton…
Enter Boris, 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…
Turkey’s triumph
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Fear and loathing
Strange as it may seem, there are still people around David Cameron who regard the Scottish referendum campaign as a…
Brexit Tories are feeling disrespected. How awful
There are moments when one wonders whether one is seeing and hearing the same things as others. For me such…
A right mess
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
Cameron’s heading for a hollow victory
‘Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won,’ wrote the Duke of Wellington after…
