Andrew Gilligan

Sayeeda Warsi would make a terrible Islamophobia tsar

29 October 2026 4:00 am

The name of the government’s highly-controversial ‘special representative’ to oversee its equally controversial definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ will be announced…

Why wasn’t Jonathan Powell vetted before starting his security role?

23 October 2026 11:45 pm

Jonathan Powell was not security vetted before being given his post as Britain’s national security adviser, The Spectator can report.…

Jonathan Powell’s wife backed Starmer being tried at the Hague

20 October 2026 9:18 pm

Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell, has had a busy 24 hours. The Spectator revealed yesterday that she…

Revealed: Jonathan Powell’s wife has defended Hamas

19 October 2026 9:05 pm

Sarah Helm, the wife of Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, took flak last week after appearing to support Palestine…

What has the National Trust done to Ironbridge Gorge?

18 October 2026 5:30 pm

As the National Trust takes over Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, I have a vague feeling of dread. Like many people,…

The British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up

9 October 2026 8:46 pm

This week, The Spectator exposed how the British Muslim Trust (BMT), paid millions of pounds by the Government as its official monitor…

Is it really true that a mosque is attacked every five days in Britain?

6 October 2026 1:22 pm

A new body paid millions of pounds to be the Government’s official monitor of anti-Muslim hatred has made multiple false claims about…

Cambridge students are being forced to do ‘inclusivity training’

30 September 2026 8:04 pm

Students in at least one college of Cambridge University will be forced to take mandatory ‘inclusivity training’ from the start…

We need the SAS to be nasty

29 September 2026 9:04 pm

You know what the SAS’s problem is, according to Monica Grenfell, a civil servant who worked at their HQ? They…

Farah Ahmed and the useful idiots of Cambridge University

24 September 2026 12:00 pm

Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a woman called…

The Church of England is destroying itself

19 September 2026 7:19 pm

Many of Britain’s institutions are being destroyed from within by leaders who do not seem to understand what they are…

Exposed: The Cambridge University PR attacking Jason Arday’s black critics

11 September 2026 12:21 pm

A man called Lester Holloway has written a savage attack on black reporters who covered the Jason Arday scandal, saying they “have…

The proof that Cambridge’s Jason Arday inquiry will be a whitewash

7 September 2026 1:22 pm

Cambridge University’s “independent inquiry” into the events around Jason Arday appears already to have decided what its outcome will be.…

How much longer will Cambridge stand by Simon Woolley?

5 September 2026 12:07 pm

The principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has insisted he was telling the “truth” when he said that Jason Arday was…

Simon Woolley is not fit to lead a Cambridge college

31 August 2026 4:50 pm

A man stands at a rally in Trafalgar Square, ranting that Jason Arday was murdered in a ‘lynching’ and ‘public assassination’ by…

Middle East Eye seems to get stupider and stupider

26 August 2026 3:30 pm

Breaking news: Jason Arday was telling the truth. That, at least, is the verdict of Middle East Eye, a generously funded…

Cambridge’s Farah Ahmed: study engineering ‘to produce weaponry for Jihad’

25 August 2026 3:00 pm

Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor a woman who…

The trouble with Cambridge’s education faculty goes all the way to the top

20 August 2026 10:33 pm

Professor Hilary Cremin, the head of Cambridge University’s education faculty, is best known as the woman who fawned over her…

Why is this Cambridge-linked project promoting an Islamic curriculum?

18 August 2026 12:16 pm

An academic project hosted by Cambridge University promotes an “Islamic curriculum” which tells 12-year-olds that Hamas is an “excuse that Israel uses…

Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?

15 August 2026 3:30 pm

An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven…

Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague

11 August 2026 3:00 pm

After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University. We can…

Rod was the most exciting boss I ever had

4 August 2026 5:00 pm

The best word for my feelings about Rod Liddle’s death is one that Rod was occasionally heard to use himself.…

Burnham isn’t being honest about his bus fare cap

23 July 2026 4:55 pm

Al Gore never quite recovered from claiming, in 1999, that ‘I took the initiative in creating the internet.’ The former…

Burnham cannot allow Ali Milani near power

20 July 2026 8:32 pm

Andy Burnham’s pledge to be ‘for all of us’ may include hiring a man for his Downing Street staff who…

Green council plots to ‘resist’ immigration raids

16 July 2026 9:45 pm

Lewisham’s Green council plans to officially collaborate with a group which seeks to ‘resist raids’ on illegal migrants ‘at all…