Jeremy Corbyn
The Tories are still anxious to reach out. And that’s a very good sign
Post-election party conferences usually follow a standard pattern. The winning party slaps itself on the back while the losers fret…
Diary
Party conference season is the most pointless waste of money, time and liver quality ever devised. I attended these sweaty,…
At least these rioters hate the right people
I was unable to join the violent protests held by Class War at the Cereal Killer Café in London last…
These days, compassion is for hacks and Lib Dems
There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all.…
Is it all over for Boris?
His leadership challenge is dwindling while Osborne’s star rises
Will Spain learn?
One of the unforeseen consequences of the reunification of Europe after the Cold War has been a resurgence of independence…
Portrait of the week
Home In his speech at the Labour party conference, much of it taken from material that had been on the…
Cicero on Labour taxes
Heidi Alexander, Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow health secretary, has emphasised how important it is ‘to weave into [Labour’s] language, our narrative…
Diary
Jeremy Corbyn has been compared to plenty of people over the past few months — a geography teacher, Michael Foot,…
Corbyn’s democracy
The virtuous Mr Corbyn is insisting that New Old Labour should return to its traditional republican ways and take decisions…
Will anyone fight, fight and fight again to save what’s left of New Labour?
Five years ago this Saturday, Ed Miliband was crowned Labour leader. Three days later, he had to deliver his first…
I knew it! All these toffs have depraved tastes
A friend of mine once watched Jeremy Corbyn try to rape an owl. This was the early to mid-1980s. The…
This will-they-won’t-they rate-rise saga has dragged on long enough
When news broke last Thursday evening that the US Federal Reserve had decided to keep interest rates on hold, I…
Corbyn’s salvation
If Labour’s atheist leader could show he was at peace with religion, it would go a long way to making his job more secure
Corbyn sets off on the wrong track
Amid all the excitement about David Cameron this week, I fear that Jeremy Corbyn’s first major policy announcement may have…
The right answer
David Cameron might not be remembered as the best prime minister in modern British history but he will probably be…
Portrait of the week
Home In the shadow cabinet chosen by the new Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the Exchequer went to John McDonnell, a…
Diary
With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…
Barometer
It’s their party Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership contest with 60% of the vote among four candidates in the…
Letters
What firefighters do Sir: Leo McKinstry’s vicious, misleading article ‘Out of the ashes’ (12 September) shows that he has no…
Corbyn puts the EU referendum on a knife edge
No one watching Jeremy Corbyn walk around the Palace of Westminster would imagine that he had just won the Labour…
The Spectator’s notes
When the Labour party began, its purpose was the representation of labour (i.e. workers) in the House of Commons. Indeed,…
The problem with Corbyn’s hatred of the media
The new leader walks across a bridge, in the dark, while the journalist asks him questions. He’s not shouting, this…
Why I left
I cannot be part of a movement run by half-educated fanatics
Labour’s lost thinker
Jon Cruddas is still looking for ways to renew his party.They’re unlikely to please his new leader
