
Cardwell is loyal to May and Brokenshire, but does not tell us much about the Prime Minister’s people
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
Plus: If Johnson goes soon, it will be of his volition. And: these presidential debates are a train crash for America.
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.
History shows that they can usually weather health crises, and we hope and trust we shall soon see this one restored to his normal vigour.
Character assassination displaces comprehension, and so damages those who engage in it.
He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
Tim Bouverie has written a fascinating account of the slide towards the Second World War.
Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.
Andrew Adonis’ new study of Prime Ministers since Churchill shows how difficult it is to reach an acceptable, and practical, European policy.
Onward, FREER, the revitalised CPS. The Tory MPs involved in all these will have to take some risks if they’re to get off the groumd.
We need to rekindle l’esprit communautaire, on both sides of the channel. In Walpole’s famous phrase, “this dance can no longer go”.
Bonar Law’s words in 1922 apply to the present leader: “The party elects a leader, and that leader chooses the policy, and if the party does not like it, they have to get another leader.”
He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.
The Somerset MP strongly supports Theresa May, denies anti-Etonian prejudice in public life, and says a Catholic could perfectly well be PM.