Philip Johnston

The cartoon porker is under fire from parents who fear the subversively traditionalist show is damaging their offspring, but I don’t see it

The very people who attack Thatcher today for closing the mines back the death of coal for green reasons

History suggests that Right- wing voters would be better off trying to change the Conservatives’ direction

If they had any ambition left, they would put up Penny Mordaunt to defeat London’s unpopular mayor

Is Wes Streeting up to the task of fixing a system that many in his party still view as beyond reproach?

Deporting a few migrants to Rwanda will not end the pull factors encouraging the Channel crossings

He is an extraordinary political actor with gas still left in tank. The Tories ignore him at their peril

Rishi Sunak’s new smoking policy is illustrative of the shift away from individual responsibility to statism

Politicians are always on the look-out for a demotic turn of phrase that shows they are in touch with the common folk. Mrs Thatcher famously called Neil Kinnock “frit”, which was a bit too colloquial for anyone brought up outside of Lincolnshire.

Politicians are always on the look-out for a demotic turn of phrase that shows they are in touch with the common folk. Mrs Thatcher famously called Neil Kinnock “frit”, which was a bit too colloquial for anyone brought up outside of Lincolnshire.