The hidden plan to bring more cheap foreign labour to Britain
It is now clear that the focus of this government is on managing national decline, not reversing it. The Budget’s…
When will Britain drop the reparations farce?
That old chestnut, “slavery reparations” – i.e. a practice almost every civilization has engaged in, but which a barefaced band…
Why did ITV’s hit job on Reform flop so badly?
ITV clearly hoped their latest documentary would be a shocking exposé of Reform. Their year-long investigation involved an undercover reporter…
Why Britain can’t get anything done
Last week, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, gave his two cents on the state of…
Shabana Mahmood has said the quiet bit out loud
Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has said that every woman travelling illegally to the UK will probably have been raped…
Jenrick is right to take on the shoplifting scourge
Robert Jenrick is back on patrol. In a video released this morning, he confronts multiple shoplifters. One man is accused of taking…
The Labour minister who thinks a black dog in a pub is a ‘far-right fantasy’
Britain as a place of “warm ale, (with) a black Labrador by your feet in a pub” is a “far-right…
Why are we giving asylum to a Hamas bodyguard?
Such is the level of rot in our public institutions, and so accustomed have we become to daily stories of…
Andy Burnham is no statesman
‘Britain is back,’ Burnham declared in his big speech to the UN yesterday. We have been laid low by ten…
Labour is hooked on benefits
More than half of Labour MPs have a greater number of disability benefit claimants in their constituency than the size…
Does Angela Rayner really think Reform’s donors are ‘fascists’?
Angela Rayner has used a big speech to the TUC to brand Reform’s biggest donors ‘a couple of off-shore billionaires…
The pathetic pearl clutching over Reform’s donations
36 is clearly the magic number. A record-breaking £36 million donation to Reform announced last night from Ben Delo, the…
Why shouldn’t British workers be prioritised for council housing?
Who can argue against making British workers and veterans the priority for social housing? Given the limited stock of housing,…
We should ban foreigners from council houses
State House occupies a prized hilltop location in central Freetown. As befits the official home of the President and First…
Britain could benefit from the European shift on migration
Pedro Sánchez is in the diplomatic doghouse. The Ceuta migrant crisis last week has prompted an extraordinary diplomatic spat, with…
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…
