We need a crackdown on crackpot charities
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been given by the Scottish government, the NHS and local councils to a charity…
Keir Starmer leaves the country in a terrible state
You get two impressions of Britain at the moment. First, that nothing works. Second, that the state is not on…
The danger of the Olly Robbins legal challenge
It is hard not to grin. Our lawyerly soon-to-be-former Prime Minister, Mr Process, stands accused of, er, failing to follow…
David Miliband would be a disastrous foreign secretary
At the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks memorial lecture at the LSE this week, David Miliband ‘broke his silence’ after days of…
The civil service’s war on expertise
The revelation in The Spectator last week that the Treasury is more concerned with boosting its DEI outcomes than hiring…
Farage and Kemi’s pitch for conservative hearts and minds
At the entrance to the hangar-like Olympia conference centre is a huge, framed drawing, showing a design for an imagined…
Why Starmer has been such a failure
There were lots of contested takeaways from the Makerfield by-election this week. But the one thing that seems incontrovertible is…
Kemi Badenoch’s equality reforms don’t go far enough
Ten years ago, I found myself accompanying the then Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office to the Locarno room…
J.D. Vance is right about Henry Nowak’s death
Henry Nowak’s murder, news of which quickly crossed the pond, has now morphed into a diplomatic row. The US State Department…
Why union members turned their backs on Labour – and switched to Reform
Labour used to be able to rely on the support of union members. Not any longer. Reform and Labour are…
The Blob is already getting ready to take down Reform
On one level it’s not exactly surprising. The idea that large parts of the civil service would treat a Farage…
Keir Starmer’s ‘chaos’ hypocrisy
It’s fair to say the reset speech didn’t quite do the trick. As the number of Labour MPs calling on…
The simple truth at the heart of Reform UK’s success
As the scale of Reform’s success in the British local elections became clear, the Reform Member of Parliament Danny Kruger…
HMS Trump and the art of a diplomatic gift
The King’s state visit to the US has been a triumph. His Majesty managed to put most of Capitol Hill…
This is no way to stop the scourge of shoplifting
The ‘tide may be turning’ on shoplifting according to our ever-hopeful Prime Minister – despite the fact shoplifting offences have…
Keir Starmer has been brutally exposed
There has been quite enough talk of process. In the past few days, we have heard more about vetting forms,…
Starmer can’t blame the civil service for the Mandelson fiasco
Of all the politicians to take up arms against Sir Humphrey, Keir Starmer is the most unlikely. After all, this…
This is why shoplifting is rife in Britain
Walker Smith, 54, who has worked as a store assistant at Waitrose for the past 17 years, has been fired…
Confessions of a Costco Guy
Those who use TikTok, or are familiar with Ed Davey’s dance routines on social media, may have heard of the…
