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Mr Cameron once led his party by challenging it, but today he meekly muddles through by pandering to its obsessions. Weakness rather than argument provoked the change of course, fo...(full article)

London is a different matter. Its future is global. Its two great industries, finance and leisure, are peculiar to itself. They depend on self-government, on regulatory discipline ...(full article)

Visiting the U.K. over the past week, I realized for the first time that Britain might actually leave the European Union. Of course, it has talked about this eventuality, on and of...(full article)

Old stereotypes die hard. When the British were asked in a survey to identify the people in Europe they considered to be the most arrogant, they did not have look very far. Just ac...(full article)

Cameron's comment that no one is benefiting from the trajectory that Syria is taking is blatantly false: Everyone would appear to have an interest in this downward spiral, until th...(full article)
As is well known, UK households have one of the highest levels of indebtedness relative to income anywhere in the world. Yet the vast majority of this debt relates to mortgages on ...
David Cameron's European policy is becoming more and more uncertain as it encounters increasing concern about his pledge to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom’s place in the...
The scandal of official reluctance to develop Britain’s shale gas potential is at last beginning to surface. It may prove to be the dress rehearsal for the ultimate drama &md...
For the past three years I have published a list of Barack Obama’s biggest insults (including those of his administration) against America’s foremost ally, Great Britai...
At present you are paying for it (at least £250 million a year) out of your taxes. Somebody you know, perhaps a close neighbour or a relative, may be the victim of it....
When in the May local government elections, a party of "clowns" and "fruitcakes" got about a quarter of the vote, commentators went giddy with polling projections in search of what...
During the Nineties, it was arguments over Europe that did as much as anything to destroy the Conservatives as an electoral force. From the coverage of the current European debate,...
These are particularly turbulent times for the Tories. Despite claiming to have learned from the defection of many thousands of their traditional voters to UKIP in the council elec...
It's too expensive, we're a rubbish country now, we can't do this sort of stuff in Britain. Let's just give in to the airlines and hope for quieter planes which seem forever to be ...
When David Cameron arrives at the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday for talks with Vladimir Putin, he would be well advised to bring a good book with him to while away the time....
You might almost feel sorry for David Cameron, as John Major's bastardsreturn. Zombie politicians of yesteryear are assembling outside Cameron's door seeking to destroy him for no...
The atrocities in Kenya are the tip of a history of violence that reveals the repackaging of empire for the fantasy it is....
That there are cretins on all sides of the constitutional debate is not in doubt. A passionate argument does not have to be a stupid debate, however. It would be cheering – and p...
London is a booming world city with a second-rate European economy attached....
THERE seems to be something about the word “Europe” that produces an almost Pavlovian reaction among Conservative MPs, causing many of their number to start a lemming-like stam...
There has been a groundswell in the big world -- the neglected majority of conservative voters has moved on....
Many people who hate Nigel Farage the reactionary throwback find themselves liking Nigel Farage the chortling oaf -- they can almost forget he is a politician at all....
The populist UKIP's achievement in confounding expectations and winning 25 per cent of the vote falls into an anti-establishment pattern seen with the rise of the US Tea Party, the...
Following its dramatic surge in the local elections, Ukip is the centre of media and political class attention. Several myths and misconceptions feature prominently amid the instan...
Britain, which has yet to recover from the 2008 financial crash, is peering enviously at Germany's economic structure with its focus on engineering, its medium-sized firms, apprent...
With characteristic obstinacy, David Cameron refused over the past few years to react to the defection of thousands of natural Tories to Ukip. He wouldn’t change his wrong-he...
The one consolation for David Cameron from Thursday’s elections in England is that the outcome could have been worse. Indeed, in the past it has been: far worse. In the same ...
As UKIP leader Nigel Farage ended a typically rousing speech on his nationwide ‘common-sense tour’, the applause among the 300-strong pinstripe-and-pearls audience reve...
Britain's monarch enjoys huge popular support -- but therein lies the royals' vulnerability. They should look to the Netherlands....
From Bosnia to Boston to Belfast, attention is turning to the independence debate, and our politicians deserve to do the nation justice....
Already, I discern Nationalists leaping to their feet and declaring: "All that volatile oil". But set aside for a moment the argument as to where the balance of economic interests ...
It did not take long for those flying the flag of fiscal austerity in Europe to turn tail. A week ago in this space I asserted that it was the beginning of the end for the “auste...
Yes, some of UKIP’s commitments are vastly expensive – with the Tories claiming there is a £120billion black hole in the party’s spending plans. But re-introducing grammar s...
While the right fixates on Nigel Farage's party, the rest of us need not do so. There is a bigger national story....
When the financial hurricane struck in 2008, Britain found itself in a crisis very much like the American one. A giant credit bubble had fueled an unsustainable rise in the price o...
Three British citizens continue to be held under appalling conditions in the United Arab Emirates, while the Government prepares to host the country's unelected leader for a state ...
The EU has lost the support of two thirds of its citizens, yet its leaders won't wake up. It's time for a sceptics' vision of Europe....
For all the politicians' wheel-spinning, the UK has basically gone nowhere in the past 18 months....
Indeed, this story has gone beyond farce to become a test of this country’s ability to remove those whom it regards as a threat to national security. Other states that also subsc...
The great cliche that all politics is local will be played out next Thursday when all the shire counties of England, Anglesey and a tranche of urban boroughs go to the polls. UKIP...
George Osborne should abandon the tribal morality of austerity and, like Japan, print money not for banks but for people....
I've met Italian Americans, Croatian Americas, Latin Americans, Scottish Americans. But, strangely, no one has ever identified themselves to me as an English American. The absence ...
There was a great irony in seeing the outpouring of heartfelt tributes to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher after her death on April 8. Many of the loudest, most exag...
The past week has been a particularly bad one for George Osborne and advocates of the Reinhart-Rogoff approach....
When I correctly predicted the results of last year’s US presidential election in all 50 states, there was a lot of talk about a revolution in the science of political prediction...
The ceremonial funeral of Baroness Thatcher on Wednesday marked the moment when memories of her time in office gave way to arguments over her legacy. David Cameron, we reported yes...
Try this paradox for size. If you are a British voter and want the UK to make a clear decision to stay in the EU, vote Conservative. If your first concern is the strength of the Co...
As Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest and the world continues to take stock of her life, the inevitable questions arise that would have no counterpart for a male leader: What did Th...
The St Paul's ceremony was a bold bluff, an attempt to portray Thatcherism as a political settlement for the ages that is doomed....