Philip Johnston

The expectation that the first 100 days of an administration will determine the rest of its lifespan is something of a contrivance.

Since Tony Blair’s election, successive prime ministers have transferred power to unaccountable officialdom

I was there when the bomb intended for the PM detonated – and witnessed the decision that reinforced the myth of her indomitability

Max Boot’s enjoyable biography depicts the 40th US president as folksy, guileless and charming, free of petty resentments or self-regard

It was the insistent questioning of my four-year-old grandson that goaded me into it. “Why is your tummy so big” he asked with a faux innocence belied by the knowing look in his eye.

Mounjaro can play its part in tackling obesity, but it is not a magic cure. My own experience was miserable

António Guterres’s decision to go to the Kremlin’s Kazan summit reveals the United Nations’ moral bankruptcy

It is upon us. The Day of Days. It has been like waiting for Christmas, only one with no Father Christmas, no food and no presents, just empty boxes and a frayed stocking hanging forlornly from the mantelpiece.

Socialism has been tried in Britain before. And it turned us into the poor man of western Europe

Opposition leaders cannot breakthrough in the House – but they can dispirit their troops and arouse mutiny