A Half-Serious Man
Boris Johnson got a couple of critical things right, but he never could or would have become a good prime minister.
John Lloyd
· 12 min read
Brexit
A collection of 18 posts
Brexit and The Voice: Two Ill-Conceived Referenda
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made a grave error of judgement. If he had paid more attention to the polarisation created by Brexit, he might have done things differently.
Helen Pluckrose
· 12 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 14 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election victory in
Quillette
· 1 min read
PODCAST 51: Carl Gardner on Britain's Constitutional Crisis
Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, talks to Toby Young about Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament, whether it’s constitutionally legitimate, and what the political ramifications are.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 46 – Toby Young on Boris Johnson, Britain's new Prime Minister
Jonathan Kay talks to Quillette‘s associate editor Toby Young about Boris Johnson, Britain’s new Prime Minister whom Toby first met 36 years ago when they were students together at Oxford. Toby recently wrote a profile of Boris for Quillette.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion.
Toby Young
· 20 min read
The Impressive Record of Theresa May
Skeptics say these are fiddled figures that don’t account for the “explosion” of zero hours contracts.
Tal Tyagi
· 10 min read
Quillette Podcast 35 – Eric Kaufmann and Sunder Katwala Discuss the European Election Results
Toby Young discusses the European election results with Eric Kaufmann, author of Whiteshift, and Sunder Katwala, director of British Future. Is national populism in decline? If not, how concerned should we be? Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, wrote about the European election for Quillette.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 30 – Ex-Communist Claire Fox on why she's standing as a Brexit Party candidate for the European Parliament
Toby Young talks to the journalist and broadcaster Claire Fox about being a Brexit Party candidate in the forthcoming European Parliament election. How did a former Communist become a candidate for a populist, right-of-centre party?
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 25 – Professor Robert Tombs on Why the English Intelligentsia Hates Brexit
Toby Young talks to Robert Tombs, Cambridge history professor, about why he supports Brexit, why so many of his colleagues don’t, whether the English intelligentsia’s loathing of their country is a uniquely English characteristic, and what their reaction is likely to be if the United Kingdom does eventually
Quillette
· 1 min read
Quillette Podcast 16 – Matthew Goodwin on Brexit, Trump and the rise of national populism
Quillette‘s Toby Young talks to Matthew Goodwin, professor of politics at the University of Kent and co-author of National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberalism, about Brexit, Trump, the rise of national populism in Europe and America, and what its impact is likely to be on the future of social
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant
In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement.
Oliver Conolly
· 7 min read
The Case Against a Second EU Referendum
If one referendum isn’t enough to resolve the matter, why would two be enough?
Madeline Grant
· 11 min read
The Case for a Second EU Referendum
The fate of the withdrawal agreement, and indeed the country at large, cannot depend on “he said, she said” accusations and counter-accusations.
Oliver Conolly
· 15 min read