In choosing Boris Johnson, Conservative MPs are making a big bet on their future
Boris Johnson’s appeal to Conservative MPs is based on two fronts: electability and inevitability. On the first front, the…
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Boris Johnson’s appeal to Conservative MPs is based on two fronts: electability and inevitability. On the first front, the…
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From 30,000 feet, Britain’s coastline has a familiar sweep and shape. Zoom closer in – to, say, the cliffs…
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In my early twenties I went through a phase of bingeing on addiction memoirs. I finished one and had…
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Readers will remember Gavin Williamson, who appeared from nowhere to become a Conservative MP (there is nothing wrong with…
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In 1962, Harold Macmillan’s home secretary Henry Brooke warned that if the government did not “prevent two nations developing…
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It turned out to be a fine week to leave the BBC. I called my old friend, Helen Jackson,…
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So, farewell then. This is my final weekly column for the New Statesman, after eight (eight!) years as assistant,…
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In 1979, a Conservative government was elected on a transformative policy platform. Margaret Thatcher promised to cut taxes, shrink…
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The songbird of the Syrian revolution, Abdul Baset Sarout, was killed on 8 June while fighting against forces loyal…
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Snuffling Michael Gove is privately beating himself up for admitting the cocaine snorting that wrecked the launch of his…
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On Thursday 23 May 2019, Alastair Campbell was sitting in his kitchen in London, pen poised over a ballot…
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In 1987, the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne observed: “Much of the stability of this country depended on the Labour Party,…
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Lisa Taddeo’s debut Three Women is an eight-year study of a subject that was thought not to exist in…
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At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond “The Pond was full but I was alone in my…
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Some things can be entirely brilliant and admirable without being terribly enjoyable. I’ve always felt this about Joseph Heller’s…
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Can a digital reconstruction of a real soundscape inspire a glorious musical response? Radio 3 promised it could, with…
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Along with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Jurassic Park and The Mask, Pixar’s original Toy Story (1995) did more to…
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There is a wild feel at Wembley Stadium before the last Spice Girls show: a man lies drunk under…
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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are “mirror” twins, which means that they came not only from a single fertilised egg,…
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That’s it, school’s out, and not just for summer, but like the song says, forever. No more pencils, no…
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“Oi!” A cross text from my daughter begins. “Why didn’t you invite me to whatever it was you were…
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It’s hard to think of many businesses whose failure would attract the same level of vitriolic glee as Jamie…
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Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham in 1960 to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father. Just three…
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