
This hatchet man in a hurry casts no new light on Johnson, except to show him as a vulnerable child
An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.
An excellent book about the Prime Minister has just been published. Unfortunately it is in German.
I have decided to write a second volume of my life of Johnson, who has always been an affront to serious-minded people’s idea of politics.
He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.
Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.
They’ve taken the central political technique of this form of populism — promising to spend other people’s money — and privatised it.
Tied to no faction, former Blair backer turned Corbyn supporter, the shadow Trade Secretary is a law unto himself.
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
A new study of the 2017 general election shows May failing to insist on a message and a manifesto which supported each other.
In all, there are 30 new entries in the whole list, one down on last year and two down on the 2016 record of 33.
We know more today than we did yesterday – and we aim to know still more tomorrow.
His understated, unpretentious, unexciting style of politics works well in the context of local government. Could it be transposed to Westminster?
It says it all, really, that an older male Tory MP should object to outlawing a sexual crime which makes use of twenty-first century technology.
Plus: Boles was right (first time round) on Gaza. The Dambusters raid anniversary. A Tory poll lead. Plus: a man and a woman will marry in Windsor on Saturday.
But Major’s Back to Basics disaster shows how badly wrong the attempt to provide moral leadership can go.
In the absence of anyone that party members find convincing, he is the beneficiary of a protest vote – boosted by an element of media hype.