General election 2015
Labour must stop feeling repulsed by the idea of Englishness
My party needs to stop being scared of patriotism
I want to see President Trump – if only because of who he’d annoy
I suppose spite and schadenfreude are thinnish reasons, intellectually, for wishing Donald Trump to become the next American president (and…
'This will take longer than I’d thought' - an interview with David Cameron
An interview with the Prime Minister
‘Perhaps we needed to tip the whole thing over’: Jon Cruddas on Jeremy Corbyn's Labour
Jon Cruddas is still looking for ways to renew his party.They’re unlikely to please his new leader
Labour's already running out of time to regain its lost voters
The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated between petty…
Why I was right to vote for Jeremy Corbyn
Is the ‘Tories for Corbyn’ campaign politics at its most infantile? As one of the few conservative commentators willing to…
The transatlantic flirtation behind Ukip’s sudden meltdown
Nigel Farage’s special relationship with an American website, and its part in his party’s sudden meltdown
Behind the scenes with Cameron's campaign
Andrew Parsons, official photographer to the Tory campaign, says he’s spent so much time with the Camerons that they’ve got used to him ‘hanging around’. Spectator Life has the stories behind some of his best pictures
Is is just me, or are people no longer ashamed to be Tory?
Pro-gay and appealing to ethnic minorities, Conservatives are suddenly socially acceptable
Revealed: David Cameron's rehearsed resignation speech
At 6.30 p.m. on 7 May, the Camerons invited guests at their home in Oxfordshire into the garden for a…
Labour’s campaign was fine. It’s the party that Britain rejected
Patrick Wintour is one of the best political editors around. For the Guardian he’s been for decades a cool and…
The Charles Kennedy I knew, by Danny Alexander
Charles Kennedy remembered
In praise of the ‘Don’t know’ voter
I am scraping the edges of my memory here, but I am fairly sure that opinion polls in my childhood…
The secret heart of London conservatism…
There is a dive near St James’s which could claim to be the epicentre of international reaction. It is also…
Cunard – a triumph of steam-age privatisation
Steam privatisation Cunard celebrated its 175th birthday by sailing three liners down the Mersey. The formation of the Cunard Line…
What business wants from Cameron
Business dreaded Miliband — but now expects Cameron to deliver
Why relief on the markets may not last
An investor’s response to the Conservative victory
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Zoe Williams’s diary: The return of the Tories means tears in the playground
For the 2005 general election, I had a party featuring a gigantic cheesecake with differentiated segments by allegiance. It contained…
Spectator letters: Silence in Scotland, the man who predicted the election result, and what to do with hair clippings
Scotland’s silent majority Sir: Hugo Rifkind’s article (‘Scotland’s nasty party’, 9 May) is a first for the media. It expresses…
It wasn't just pollsters who were useless in the election; pundits were too
It takes some agility to shoot yourself in the foot and saw off the branch you’re sitting on, while hoisting…
Lefties should cherish trendy London while they still can
London is a bad thing. Everybody knows this now. Britain has had enough of London. Ed Miliband failed in part…
Can Cameron bring us full employment? And do we want it?
‘Two million jobs have been created since 2010 — but there will not be a moment of rest until we…
Inside the Milibunker: the last days of Ed
The inside story of Labour’s chaotic and secretive election campaign
How did the polls get it so wrong? Jim Messina knows
Jim Messina, Cameron’s data supremo, explains all
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