Tag: Boris Johnson

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Charismatic politicians rise when parliament is vestigial, said Ferdinand Mount in 2012. Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Hannah McKay - WPA Pool/Getty
01/07/2020 - 12:01am

The poisoning of liberal democracy Ferdinand Mount's <I> The New Few </i> presages a decade destabilised by inequality and incompetent oligarchies

Tanya Gold

Monday, January 6

06.01

Can the Tories cling on to the Red Wall? The Conservatives need a five-year plan to stop a swing back to Labour

David Jeffery

Thursday, January 2

02.01

Where will Boris Johnson lead us? Come 2029, the former United Kingdom will be consumed by a new dilemma

James Kirkup

Monday, December 30

30.12

The Tories should have listened to Jesse Norman The Conservative MP's 2011 <I> Case for Real Capitalism </I> was prescient — but ignored by his party

James Kirkup

Wednesday, December 25

25.12

For Iraq’s Christians, this year might be their last Sixteen years after the disastrous invasion, and two years after ISIS were defeated, the community faces its end

Reine Hanna

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

Tuesday, December 24

24.12

Did you have a Brexit-free Christmas? Why family should be a shelter from the political

Niall Gooch

Friday, December 20

20.12

All hail Good King Boris He won decisively, but his Government needs to offer something more than electoral success and some infrastructure projects

Maurice Glasman

Thursday, December 19

19.12

Why Boris should be more 2012 The London Olympics provided a roadmap for how to unite our kingdom

Polly Mackenzie

Wednesday, December 18

18.12

Why Liverpool will never vote Tory The city voted Remain and shows no sign of turning blue. What makes it so exceptional?

Mary Dejevsky

Monday, December 16

16.12

Does Labour understand why it lost? Corbyn's party finally achieved its ambition to empower and politicise the working-class

Graeme Archer

16.12

Eight ways to unite the nation We've endured too many years of bad government. Let's hope Boris seizes this chance to be a great leader

Polly Mackenzie