David Cameron
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, after spending a week parrying questions about his late father’s investment fund Blairmore, suddenly…
Tax returns to boast about
As Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell whinge away about how rich David Cameron’s family is, they might consider that in…
Cameron’s plan for a graceful exit all hinges on the referendum
The year 2019 seems a long way away. Whether or not David Cameron can stay in office until then is…
The Spectator’s notes
I don’t think there is a Royal College of Public Relations, but if there were, it should teach a course…
The wisdom of pitchfork-wielding crowds
In a way the headline to my fellow columnist Dominic Lawson’s Sunday Times commentary on 12 April said it all.…
Cameron and Mugabe: spot the difference
It is not what Robert Mugabe would do. Calm down. These are ‘spiv Robert Mugabe antics’, said the Tory backbencher…
Let’s refocus the Panama story on the bad stuff that really matters
There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession…
Sex, lies and tax returns
The confected scandal around the Panama papers is part of a concerted and sinister attempt to change what counts as private
An inconvenient truth
‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…
My confession: I began dodging tax aged eight
As someone who still entertains hope of becoming a member of Parliament one day, I’d better come clean about my…
The road to Panama
The 11 million documents leaked from Panama lawyers Mossack Fonseca tell us much that we know already. It’s hardly news…
A big hand for the two-faced tax hacks
Something odd happened at the Guardian on Monday as the paper’s editorial staff were basking in the glow of their…
Power failure
A fortnight ago, the energy minister, Andrea Leadsom, declared grandly that Britain, alone in the world, would commit to a…
Can anyone stop Boris?
Most MPs greet the parliamentary recess with a sense of relief. But Conservatives are welcoming this Easter break like the…
Spectator’s Notes
Why have David Cameron and George Osborne overreached? Why are so many in their own party no longer disposed to…
The Conservative crack-up
Months after a historic election victory, party unity is in pieces. What can Cameron do about it?
Budget brings the focus back to Britain
George Osborne used to tell his aides to prepare every budget as if it were their last: to throw in…
Turkey’s blackmail
Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…
Governor Cameron and the Brussels empire
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…
The Spectator’s notes
Surely there is a difference between Mark Carney’s intervention in the Scottish referendum last year and in the EU one…
Letters
What might have been Sir: Harry Mount points out that Boris Johnson is two years older than David Cameron (Diary,…
Will Cameron pull his punches to help the Tories reunite?
If Downing Street’s calculations are correct, next week will see politics begin to return to normal. We’ll all move on…
Leap in the dark
‘They all laughed at Christopher Columbus,’ sang my husband flatly, ‘when he said the world was round.’ I wasn’t going…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Diary
The Prime Minister is pretty angry with Boris. But the idea that they’ve competed with each other since school is…
