Jay Elwes
21 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
Read the full article15 September 2022
Those who chose the storm
The French Resistance has often been portrayed in a less than serious light, but that could not be further from the truth, as the memoirs of Marie Chamming’s illustrate
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