Boris Johnson
The needy party
Wanting to be liked is a recipe for hatred
Constitutional curiosities
Where do Truss and Sunak stand?
Sporting Prime Ministers
Some had talent, some did not
A pair of presidential PMs
Is Boris Johnson reminiscent of Churchill or a very different PM?
Lavender letters
Bozza has left the building
Johnson’s disrespect for the law
The PM repeatedly showed a cavalier attitude towards constitutional conventions
Bush and Boris: separated at birth?
Boris aped Dubya’s mistakes
What is good in life, Theresa?
All good things come to an end; and Boris too
The Chronicles of Borisland
A magical land where it is always summer and nobody ever has to resign
Old tunes remastered
Penny, Liz and Boris — still rocking the political moshpit
In defence of the “privileged girlboss”
Let’s be honest about why it was so easy for women turn on Blake Lively
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
How the fall of Assad has undermined Putin
He is struggling in Ukraine and he has now failed in Syria
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
