Boris Johnson
PMQs: Time to move on
Whatever Boris Johnson may claim, Starmer has emerged from Corbyn’s shadow
Cloak and no dagger
Were David Cameron and Theresa May negligently complicit in Russia’s meddling?
L’esprit de Boeuf
What sort of political XI will Botham join at Westminster?
The Captain doesn’t want to play
What happened to Boris as a child that he hates cricket so?
Excl: Liz Truss thinks No.10 leaked her letter
The Trade Secretary is privately unhappy with Downing St
Finding the dividing line
Starmer seeks to trap Johnson on detail. But the future of the furlough scheme is really where the debate should head
FDR is no hero – he shouldn’t be Boris’s role model
Is Boris’s ‘Rooseveltian’ revival really what the country needs?
Ignoring the Covid evidence
Far from following the science, the government turned its back on all available data
Losing without a fight
No one will say the truth to the one side that is waging the culture war. The only dog in this battle will win it
Passing the Tebbit test
Dominic Lawson reviews 10,000 Not Out: The History of The Spectator, 1828-2020 by David Butterfield
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
