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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

22 Oct 2024 · 12 min read

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

31 Oct 2023 · 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

31 Mar 2023 · 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 / Toby Young

20 Jan 2020 · 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

30 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

Listen to Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson by Toby Young

Toby Young reads Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man, his profile of Boris Johnson, Britain’s new Prime Minister. The piece was published in Quillette on 23rd July.

Quillette

29 Jul 2019 · 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

25 Jul 2019 · 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

23 Jul 2019 · 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

26 Jun 2019 · 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

28 May 2019 · 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 / Claire Fox

1 May 2019 · 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

3 Apr 2019 · 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

14 Feb 2019 · 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

6 Feb 2019 · 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

21 Jan 2019 · 11 min read