Tag: Boris Johnson

The Tories are not, as they like to imagine, the victims of the Blob, but its creators. Civil service reform sounds dull but is essential if elected Governments are ever to regain control.

Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel has filed his dispatch on the National Conservatism Conference and concludes the movement, if that's what it is, isn't serious about winning and wielding political power.

'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.

Commenting on the Boris Johnson trial, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson comments that "it’s not just right but important that politicians end up ensnared in the traps they set for others".

Boris Johnson has today published his long-awaited ‘partygate’ defence, ahead of his appearance before the Privileges Committee tomorrow afternoon.

The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, who served as mediator between Russia and Ukraine at the war's outset, has said in an interview that the West blocked a draft peace deal because they wanted to "keep striking Putin".

Boris Johnson argues that we should give Ukraine longer-range artillery, tanks and perhaps even planes. This is a coherent position. By contrast, the position of Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz makes no sense at all.

Boris Johnson was secretly nudged into wearing a mask, according to the head of the Government's 'nudge unit', who says he turned his powers of persuasion on the PM after "it became clear he was not leading by example".

In a special Christmas fairy tale for the Daily Sceptic, David Stacey imagines how different the last two-and-a-half years would have been if Anders Tegnell had been in charge of Britain’s response to the pandemic.