Jay Elwes
18 April 2024
Hypocrisy of the Sunak kind
The PM used Angela Rayner as a weapon while knowing about allegations over Mark Menzies
Read the full article17 April 2024
Big rouble in little Britain
A flood of Russian money has undeniably corrupted British politics – but to what extent? It is now time for an inquiry to find out
Read the full article17 January 2024
When Putin’s enforcers go on holiday
The Rajapaksa government may have gone, but Sri Lanka is still happy to welcome Moscow’s money
Read the full article22 November 2023
The surreal party: Ken Clarke on how the Tories lost their marbles
The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee
Read the full article20 October 2023
The dangers of a post-defeat Tory party
The by-election results suggest a Conservative wipe-out at the General Election. But defeat on that scale could push the party towards extremism
Read the full article11 October 2023
The era of Flat Earth Conservatism
The Tory Party has been taken over by cynics and fantasists, says former Telegraph editor Max Hastings – which is why he has decided to vote Labour
Read the full article10 October 2023
Starmer’s conference speech was a confident act of reassurance. But what about Brexit?
Despite an invader on stage and an elephant in the room, Labour’s leader looks in control of his party and his destiny
Read the full article13 September 2023
Thanks to Brexit, we know the dangers of being cut off
A recent seaside rescue in Cornwall reminded me how quickly isolationism can go horribly wrong
Read the full article23 August 2023
When one million pilgrims came to Portugal to see the Pope
The gathering was a reminder that the broad secularism of north-western Europe is the exception, not the rule
Read the full article11 August 2023
Speedy Boarding for the NHS is government by gesture
The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really
Read the full article29 June 2023
Rwanda Plan judgement: good riddance to cynical culture war nonsense
A ludicrous, deluded and superficial party came up with a ludicrous, deluded and superficial policy that didn’t survive its brush with reality
Read the full article24 May 2023
The very English city that isn’t
Bath has been deemed a hotbed of our country’s elitism. That’s all well and good, but the city’s roots are anything but English
Read the full article12 May 2023
Welcome to the alternative conference season
The coming week will offer two possible paths ahead for the Conservative Party. Both are bad, but one is downright sinister
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25 April 2023
There was no plan – and he knew it
They all did. But they campaigned for it anyway
Read the full article21 April 2023
Dominic Raab – a failure
He is the poster boy for a generation of Conservative politicians who have made Britain more divided, isolated and poorer
Read the full article25 March 2023
Catherine Ashton: Our last European leader
How can nations speak to one another? One British diplomat found the answer
Read the full article22 March 2023
Boris Johnson’s day in court probably will not save him
He denied everything – but will anyone believe him?
Read the full article15 March 2023
Forget the budget, here’s the real, dirty way Sunak aims to win the next election
By weaponising migrant boats and letting his MPs stoke culture wars, the PM is damaging his party and the country
Read the full article08 March 2023
The moral collapse of the Tory party
The government’s immigration policy shows how extreme it has become
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28 February 2023
I’m happy Steve Baker’s got closure - now, what about the rest of us?
The ex-‘Brexit hard man’ hopes his mental struggles are now over, yet millions continue to suffer because of policies he espoused
Read the full article27 February 2023
Has Sunak done enough?
The prime minister has got his agreement with the EU on the Northern Ireland Protocol – but will it be enough to stop a rebellion?
Read the full article24 February 2023
Boris Johnson’s latest intervention is more bad news for Sunak’s deal
The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland
Read the full article21 February 2023
Resignation watch: The four ministers who could quit over the Protocol deal
Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Tories – what could possibly go wrong?
Read the full article15 December 2022
A very European scandal
The point is not the corruption but the response
Read the full article27 October 2022
The Salem of Europe
The New World’s witch trials are infamous. But the most brutal outbreaks of Satanic panic took place in what is now southern Germany
Read the full article21 October 2022
If Boris wins, he will destroy the Tory party
A generation of kids will grow up associating Conservatism with cold, hunger and political disaster. He’ll only make it worse
Read the full article18 October 2022
We need a general election now
The Conservative Party has driven Britain to the brink of a democratic crisis. Only a national vote can end it
Read the full article13 October 2022
The danger of having only one idea
What happens when it fails?
Read the full article05 October 2022
Truss speaks. Badly
The most important question raised by the prime minister’s speech came from the protestors who disrupted it
Read the full article28 September 2022
Liz Truss plummets to success
The mini-budget is one of the worst pieces of economic policy-making in history. Meet its fans
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