Matthew Parris is a prominent British journalist and columnist, known for his work in The Times, The Spectator, and The Spectator World. With a focus on politics and current affairs, Parris offers insightful commentary and analysis on a wide range of topics. His writing style is characterized by wit, sharpness, and a unique perspective on various issues.
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The British electorate have no time for Rishi Sunak but are not convinced by Keir Starmer either
‘Tony Blair walks on water.’ Decades ago this statement led a Times photographer and me to the front door of the dismal Hackney North & Stoke Newington Labour party offices. It was 23 April 1997, and a fateful general election loomed. I was my newspaper’s 46-year-old political sketchwriter, and Labour’s local candidate was a 43-year-old
If you could see the photograph, you’d know at once what I mean by saying that politics can’t entirely be disentangled from the personal. The photo is of a little boy in a child’s green cycling helmet
The opposite of attraction is repulsion. Political commentary gives too little attention to a party’s (or leader’s) capacity to repel. Attractiveness to some may itself inspire disgust in others, simultaneously lifting support yet imposing a ceiling upon how high. Here’s a quiz. Our last five elections have seen Labour and the Conservatives slugging it out
We spend too much of our lives, I know, pondering might-have-beens; but Monday was the occasion for an avalanche of them. For The Times I was tramping the streets of semi-suburban Derbyshire with the
Last Saturday, seeking a metaphor for the slide towards either more government or less, I described the watershed between the Irish Sea and the North Sea on the railway line from Buxton in Derbyshire
Memorably sweeping statements tripping easily from the tongue have a habit of worming their way into assumptions we make and ending up as the judgment of history. The word ‘appeasement’ rather than the decisions Neville Chamberlain actually took have consigned the name of a defensible statesman to something approaching a term of abuse. ‘Milk snatcher’
Last week at the Buxton International Festival I joined a big audience for an onstage interview with Anna Reid. She’s a writer who specialises in Eastern European history, was once the Economist magazine’s correspondent in Ukraine, and made her name with a brilliant book, Borderland, which was both a portrait, a history and an appreciation
One hundred party conferences, nine general elections and nine prime ministers — Times columnist Matthew Parris has spent 36 years writing about politics. Regrets? Not many
I fear the fashion for opining wisely that “we must address populist concerns” — advice that came first from the Tory right — is now spreading to the Labour Party. Of course the new government worries
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